by Gil Friend | Dec 5, 2002 | Politics
Hey: It’s democracy time! Jennifer Klyse: I want to build a service that allows individuals to monitor, on a daily or weekly basis, all official activity of their elected officials in Washington. [Scripting News]
by Gil Friend | Dec 4, 2002 | Politics
Arthur C. Clarke. “CNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.” [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog] [Undated, probably from first US /...
by Gil Friend | Dec 3, 2002 | Politics
Never one to pull her punches I Stand with Israel: I Stand with the Jews Oriana Fallaci Corriere della Sera | December 2, 2002 I find it shameful and see in all this the rise of a new fascism, a new nazism… much more grim and revolting because it is conducted...
by Gil Friend | Dec 2, 2002 | Politics
The Secret Life of Henry Kissinger. Let me, as one of the world’s leading dissident Henry Kissinger scholars, tell you a few things about him that until now only I have known. By Neal Pollack. [New York Times: Opinion] Another opinion on the Kissinger...
by Gil Friend | Nov 29, 2002 | Politics
In Media Res. Will the economic interests of the media undermine objective news coverage? By Paul Krugman. [New York Times: Opinion] And the informal rule against blatantly partisan reporting has also gone away — at least as long as you are partisan in the right...
by Gil Friend | Nov 28, 2002 | Politics
Quote of the day “One must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche