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Women like Mary Roberts Rhinehart have been reporting from conflict zones since WWI (1914-1918). But it took women like Christiane Amanpour to finally shatter the glass ceiling among war correspondents during the Gulf War (1990-1991). Now the archives of print and TV news organizations are replete with reports by female war correspondents, including Marie Colvin,… Read more.
In “Demystifying ISIS: Case against Obama’s Bush-lite War on Terrorism,” September 10, 2014, I delineated why it’s a patent folly that the United States is meddling, yet again, in the internecine struggle between Sunnis and Shias. Not least because these two factions of Islam have been waging it for a thousand years, and may continue… Read more.
What passes for journalism at the moment? This blog brims with commentary on my disdain for what passes for journalism these days. So, imagine my dismay when 60 Minutes, the reputed standard bearer of broadcast journalism, only reinforced my disdain on Sunday. On October 27, 60 Minutes aired a highly touted report on the 9/11/12 terrorist attack on the US consulate in… Read more.
Most Supreme Court justices are remembered for the precedent-setting decisions they write. But Justice Clarence Thomas will be remembered for something else entirely: the dark, silent shadow he casts over the court’s proceedings like a judicial zombie. Truth be told, no one expected Thomas to excel as a jurist. Not even George H. Bush, the… Read more.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may have tipped his hand unwittingly during his interview on 60 Minutes last night. Because he manifested a classic case of projection when he ascribed to President George W. Bush the intent to use the threat of attack as psychological warfare against his people. One wonders, after all, what his repeated… Read more.
