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If you're looking for some light reading on those who would like western society to implode or explode, whichever's easiest, terrorism expert Peter Bergen prepared a list of books for the Washington Post: Here's some titles (all prices in US dollars): Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the [...]
Mon, November 22 2004 » * Big Picture Stuff, Main Page » Comments Off
This is a bit late to the blog. Michael Scheuer — who wrote the jeremiad Imperial Hubris — has resigned from the CIA. 60 Minutes did an interview with him on Nov. 14. Here's the scary stuff: “You've written no one should be surprised when Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda detonate a weapon of [...]
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This is a lengthy NYT magazine article about the battle for Ohio. In some ways, Kerry did very well there, but here's why it wasn't good enough: Why wasn't it enough? In the days that followed, theories circulated claiming that Republicans had stolen votes from Kerry by messing with the results from electronic voting machines. [...]
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Here's an excerpt from an NYT story by Randall Stross about the inhuman grind at Electronic Arts Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of interactive electronic games: HARLES DICKENS himself would shudder, I should think, were he to see the way young adults are put to work in one semimodern corner of our economy. Gas lamps are long [...]
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Author Mark Danner compares the Vietnam-era Colin Powell with the current team player, analyzes the Iraq situation and then brings us to 1992's Powell Doctrine: Here's an excerpt from the NYT article: No one can say how many lives could have been saved had the responsible officials asked the right questions. As it happens, those [...]
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