March 14, 2005
-
400 Years of Blogging By William Bowles
If nothing else, the explosion of electronic ‘Penny Dreadfuls’ or the ‘Blog’ has at long last enabled us to challenge the long-held assumption that to be a journalist you need to have some special dispensation from some higher power that enables one to stand aside from the human race and cast an ‘objective’ eye over… Continue reading
-
Who was Rafik Hariri, and who was behind his assassination? By Mohamed Hassan
If the regime in Syria is weakened, capitulates or is overthrown, it will be a defeat for the Arab nationalist movement. Hezbollah will be weakened or will disappear and that will support the emergence of a bourgeois comprador Palestinian leadership [which has already happened in the wake of the death of Arafat], ready to collaborate… Continue reading
-
No Sleepy Times Down South By Edward Teague
14 March 2005 — The New Dark Age Roger (Rogelio) Pardo-Maurer IV is Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and reports to Rumsfeld. Graduate in History from Yale and Economics from Cambridge (England), he contributed to 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States. Pardo-Maurer also served in combat with the 20th Continue reading