March 2012
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I got accepted into the Young Atlanticist Working Group, which is co-run by the Atlantic Council and the German Marshall Fund. It’s a neat concept but they made a fatal mistake: they made participation in the Atlantic Summit in Bratislava and the NATO Summit in Chicago contingent on “participation.” This sounds awesome until you realize that they’re using Facebook to...
February 2012
54 posts
“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a...”
– Poor, poor, poor rich people.
“Even more baffling is that Stratfor does contract work for agencies of the...”
– How the STRATFOR leaks embarrass its clients more than itself.
“What will it take to persuade the U.S. intelligence community that...”
– That’s the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board, saying the U.S. intelligence community will be wrong until it decides Iran is building a nuclear bomb.
A classic case of confirmation bias blinding analysis.
“Much of the movie consists of pure action, punctuated by terse dialogue and few...”
– Roger Ebert on the newest military propaganda film, Act of Valor.
Shakespeare in Klingon, One Night Only →
“One of the things I will talk about that no president has talked about before...”
– Fucking Rick Santorum
“The real barrier to normalizing trade relations with Russia isn’t...”
– This week, I explain why it’s past time for permanent normal trade relations with Russia, for The Atlantic.
How the CIA's fake vaccination program endangers... →
“The United States still lacks a coherent national security policy. Instead of...”
– In case that sounds familiar, it is the words of Senator Barack Obama, in his 2006 book The Audacity of Hope, on page 472 of the hardcover version.
Anyway, so now his White House is doing exactly what he complained about six years ago. Go figure.
“One of the workers (was) attacking the building’s ceiling with a crowbar when...”
– There’s always money in the office attic.
A French Champagne producer is spreading the wealth with his workers after they discovered nearly $1 million in gold coins stashed away in the building’s rafters, according to Agence France Press (AFP).
(via joshsternberg)
"Target, for example, has figured out how to... →
Guess what happens when you shift from reporting... →
“The head of an observer mission from the Commonwealth of Independent States, CIS...”
– So, Lebedev is kind of the Dash Mihok of Turkmenistan, then?
“So even though our gross double standards regarding Bahrain and Syria might...”
– Mark Adomanis gets at the heart of why “R2P” and humanitarian intervention, as a geopolitical concept, is so destructive to the international order, even if it might reduce regime brutality in some cases.
“In reality, Obama’s foreign policy vis-a-vi Russia has failed not due to its...”
– Anyway, surrender.
It’s good to read these NYT commenters push back so heavily against the RIAA’s awful push on SOPA and PIPA. However. The RIAA is getting exactly what it wants out of all this negative publicity and even failed legislation (and the backlash during it’s “sue the grandmothers” approach a decade ago): it is raising awareness of the problem of piracy, and it is creating...
“Far from a miscarriage of justice, the Syria veto is a stark reminder that...”
– Another look at the politics of the failed Syria vote, over at PBS.
John Aravosis: Was the Komen backlash the women’s... →
Yeah, clearly that’s obviously not true, you dumb asshole.
Realizing Tucker Carlson's brother is named... →
“A big reason for Russia and China’s intransigence is the NATO coalition...”
– Over at The Atlantic, I try to unravel some of the large problems unleashed by our little intervention in Libya. And it ain’t pretty.