Archive for September 26th, 2007
Crackdown continues: troops beat up monks
The Burmese junta continues to order troops to beat up monks and protesters as it cracks down on the mass demonstrations in Burma (renamed Myanmar by the regime). Reports coming out of Burma say that troops attacked people at a monastery in Rangoon Thursday morning and then arrested about 100 monks and laymen. An American [...]
Lee Bollinger: the ugly American?
It’s a strange state of affairs when one of the most visible figures in American academia somehow manages to draw the critical eye of the press when hosting a forum discussing (among other things) free speech— especially as one of the most prominent contemporary oppressors of that freedom is the centerpiece of the event.
Yet this [...]
Failure-heroes
Newspapers manage to get everything right and wrong in the same stories. Today’s front-page example from The Paper of Record comes under the headline: Inspector Finds Broad Failures in Oil Program
The Interior Department’s program to collect billions of dollars annually from oil companies that drill on federal lands is plagued by… ethical lapses and fears [...]
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