“To Link or Not to Link: The Human Rights Question in North Korea,” Foreign Policy in Focus, December 19, 2005 Review of Julie Mertus, Bait and Switch, New Politics, Winter 2005 “Chemical Farm,” AlterNet, November 22, 2005 “The End of Anonymity,” ZNet, November 17, 2005 “The Soul of the New Fast Food,” AlterNet, October 20, 2005 “Hunger Strike… Continue reading 2005 Archives
“Breaking into Political Journalism” Wednesday, October 12, 2005 6:45 – 8:45 p.m. Washington, DC “Gourmet Restaurants of Pyongyang: The Far-Reaching Consequences of North Korean Economic Reform” Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12 PM (lunch provided) Korean Culture and Information Service 2370 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC “The Global Food Court: Fast Food, Slow Food, Imperial Food”… Continue reading 2005 Events
The Internet is a great place for anonymity. A woman can go into a chat room on the Web and pretend to be a man. A teenager can pretend to be a lawyer and give out free legal advice. A blogger with a pseudonym can dispense inside gossip about the government or Hollywood or the… Continue reading The End of Anonymity
The United States currently spends more than $400 billion a year on the military. This is nearly one-half of the entire global expenditure on military affairs. Two nearest U.S. rivals in military spending, China and Russia, are not even close: combined, they spend only one-fourth of what the Pentagon does. North Korea spends about 1… Continue reading The Perils of Imperial Indigestion
When the Bush administration was mounting its attack on Iraq in 2003, former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz spoke of the chain effect that Saddam Hussein’s ouster would have on the Middle East. Iraq would be the first Arab democracy. Other peoples in the region would rise up against their leaders. The U.S. decision to… Continue reading Connecting the Democratic Dots
The bravest American journalist does not travel to war zones. He does not go undercover to write about organized crime or report on the latest deadly medical epidemic. The bravest U.S. journalist spends most of his time in an office at The New York Times. In fact, he is not even a journalist. Paul Krugman’s… Continue reading What’s Wrong with the U.S. Media