Saturday, May 02, 2009
Saturday Morning (Journalism) Quarterback
The Top Five Worth-Reading Stories From This Week In Stories Worth Reading
Chris Hedges asks: has Obama missed his moment? He's letting the same Clinton-era hacks that got us into this mess try and dig us out. Meanwhile, a top Congressman admits that Congress is run by the banks and this somehow isn't news?
As the more Bush-era crimes come to light, it seems that Bush officials used torture to try and link Saddam to 9/11. Also, Salon reports that new evidence is emerging of a secret US torture prison. [In a brief bit of editorializing: the conservatives in media are doing a masterful job of spinning this debate: torture (waterboarding) IS illegal - we (America) have that in law, and have prosecuted people for it in the past (Japanese soldiers for example). The question is: did the Bush administration have their lawyers justify waterboarding that they OK'd, possibly to tie 9/11 to Iraq? If no, so be it. If yes, crimes were committed. The debate IS NOT about whether it worked and "kept us safe". Which is what the conservative media have managed to turn this into. And its un-American, in my view.]
Scientists now say that we may have a latent gene that can make us immune to HIV. In related news: the private health insurance industry is killing our economy.
In environmental news: imagine a world without seafood on the table.
Finally this week, a great article from Uri Avnery, referencing Sinclair Lewis, on the growth of Zionist fascism. And at The American Prospect, Dana Goldstein has a great article about the difficulty of dealing with Ahmadinejad, a man who who sadly wraps legtimate criticisms of Israel around the insanity of Holocaust denial.
Chris Hedges asks: has Obama missed his moment? He's letting the same Clinton-era hacks that got us into this mess try and dig us out. Meanwhile, a top Congressman admits that Congress is run by the banks and this somehow isn't news?
As the more Bush-era crimes come to light, it seems that Bush officials used torture to try and link Saddam to 9/11. Also, Salon reports that new evidence is emerging of a secret US torture prison. [In a brief bit of editorializing: the conservatives in media are doing a masterful job of spinning this debate: torture (waterboarding) IS illegal - we (America) have that in law, and have prosecuted people for it in the past (Japanese soldiers for example). The question is: did the Bush administration have their lawyers justify waterboarding that they OK'd, possibly to tie 9/11 to Iraq? If no, so be it. If yes, crimes were committed. The debate IS NOT about whether it worked and "kept us safe". Which is what the conservative media have managed to turn this into. And its un-American, in my view.]
Scientists now say that we may have a latent gene that can make us immune to HIV. In related news: the private health insurance industry is killing our economy.
In environmental news: imagine a world without seafood on the table.
Finally this week, a great article from Uri Avnery, referencing Sinclair Lewis, on the growth of Zionist fascism. And at The American Prospect, Dana Goldstein has a great article about the difficulty of dealing with Ahmadinejad, a man who who sadly wraps legtimate criticisms of Israel around the insanity of Holocaust denial.
# posted by Patrick : 1:07 PM
