At least one of the organizers of Columbia’s recent anti-war are event is not happy that the media has focused largely on Nicholas De Genova’s comments that “the only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military” and that De Genova hoped to see “a million Mogadishus.” Daniel Drezner has…
March, 2003
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Eric Margolis seems to have taken the article he wrote at the start of the U.S. war in Afghanistan and recycled it in an article about the start of the U.S. war in Iraq. On Iraq, Margolis writes, The opening weeks of the Second Oil War against Iraq – a.k.a. Operation Iraq Freedom – produced…
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One other thing about Dave Winer — does he think before he writes stuff like the Winer doctrine, Then I came up with a new doctrine. It goes like this. If you have a choice, you have no excuse going to war. You can only go to war if you have no choice. I’m sorry…
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I’m as big a fan as they come of Creative Commons, but for the life of me I cannot understand what Dave Winer is thinking in this post about the Harvard weblogs he has set up, Note that the main weblog and all new weblogs sport a Creative Commons license. I think it’s quite reasonable.…
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This Yahoo! story discusses how the Air Force One menu recently featured “Freedom Toast” — French toast being verboten because of France’s refusal to agree to war against Iraq. There’s just one problem — French toast doesn’t have anything to do with France. Instead, the invention of French toast is widely credited to Joseph French,…
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According to the BBC, American and British firms are already fighting the next big war in Iraq. When the U.S. and U.K. rebuild Iraq, will it get a GSM or CDMA cellular network. California Republican Darrell Issa is reportedly not happy that U.S. funds might be used to build a European-style GSM infrastructure rather than…
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Whatever will we do once Salon.Com finally shutters its site (after the requisite party at my place that is). I mean, how will journalism go on without rambling nonsense by Anne Lamott like this, I am going to pray for George Bush’s heart to change, so that he begins to want to be a part…
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Somehow I have a feeling that Dave Winer is not going to be too happy with the story NBC ran that included a “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” quote from him. If you missed it, the feature Winer’s been talking about on Scripting News for the past few days was pretty much exclusively about warblogs (and likely gave the…
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Henry Hanks links to a story in which it turns out Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe is capable of telling the truth. Here’s how Mugabe chose to describe himself at the recent state funeral of one of his cabinet ministers, I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for…
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An episode of Frontline recently explored the risks that reporters face covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of course to Frontline that means — surprise — covering the risks that Palestinian journalists face from the Israeli Defense Force. Palestinian official censorship, intimidation, etc. warrants just an article on the Frontline web site as an afterthought.