After the fall of Baghdad in 2003, chaos and lawlessness prevailed. How and why that happened is what this documentary tries – convincingly – to explain. Through interview after interview, director Charles Ferguson shows how mistakes were made in the highest levels of the United States government. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vINM0CAysc8″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] Former Deputy […]
Kevin Myers, a provocative columnist for the Irish Independent, has stirred up a hornet’s nest in Ireland with a piece slamming the late Senator Edward Kennedy for drunken, “oafish” behavior and calling “Irish-America” infantile and revolting. His piece is entitled Kennedys Were Leaders of the Most Nauseating and Sentimental of any Ethnic Minority in U.S. […]
The political tone of U.S. coverage in the London Financial Times usually falls somewhere between that of The Washington Post and The New York Times – that is to say mainstream Democratic tending to liberal. Most of the analysts the paper quotes are from Democratic or liberal institutions and it often knocks conservative viewpoints. So […]
Christopher Dickey is an award-winning author and Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. His most recent book, Securing the City, was published in February 2009. Mr. Dickey’s Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle East, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. His newest book is a rare inside look at […]
Read the full article about Tim Hetherington here Among the new books that come out every fall, there are always a few stand-outs. Long Story Bit by Bit: Liberia Retold is one of them. Although the book was technically released earlier this summer, the thought-provoking combination of photojournalism, reportage, and international affairs history is notable […]
It took director Tom Peosay 10 years to make this documentary. The film covers Tibet’s history and focuses mostly on its occupation by China in the last 50 years. It is clear from the beginning that the makers of this movie side with those calling for a free Tibet. Chinese officials who are interviewed about […]
Christian Poveda, a Franco-Spanish documentary filmmaker, was shot and killed yesterday morning on the road near his home in Rosario, El Salvador. Poveda was a veteran journalist with experience reporting in Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, El Salvador, and Nicaragua. His documentary about El Salvador’s two most notorious gangs, “La Vida Loca” is set to premiere on […]
It is no shock that many people try desperately to reach the United States to attain a better quality of life for themselves and their families in their home countries. This documentary focuses on children who ride atop a train they call “The Beast” in order to reach their “Promised Land.” Some of the kids […]
The French newspaper Le Monde casts doubts on forecasts that a wave of new "green jobs" is on the way, as claimed by both the French and U.S. governments. The left-of-center paper queries President Barack Obama’s pre-election pledge that he would rapidly create 5 million "green jobs" in the United States and French President Nicolas […]
This blog has previously drawn attention to the failure of the American media to verify claims of U.S. world superiority when a little checking would show such pretensions to be untrue, or at least doubtful. Now it is the turn of conservatives opposing Democratic health care reform proposals to benefit from the media’s blind eye, […]
Anti-Americanism may be resurfacing in Europe after a pause in rhetorical attacks on the United States after Barack Obama won the presidency in November 2008. “The highly vaunted transatlantic honeymoon may be coming to an end,” writes Soeren Kern, senior fellow for transatlantic relations at the Grupo de Estudios Estratégicos / Strategic Studies Group in […]
What is it about Denmark that seems to antagonize right-wing American commentators so much? Fox News pundits Bill O’Reilly and Laura Ingraham are particularly prone to lashing out at Denmark, even though they seem to know virtually nothing about the country. In April, Ingraham suggested that President Barack Obama was probably closer to the president […]
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