There’s Suffering on Both Sides
By Jesse Singal - Jan 5th, 2009 at 11:48 amGlenn Greenwald makes an exceedingly basic point that’s worth taking a moment to think about:
I can’t express how many emails I’ve received in the last…
Posts Tagged ‘terrorism’
Essex County Schools are a Magnet for Sex and Violence
By L. Russell Allen - Dec 10th, 2008 at 3:49 pmPerhaps you remember the imbroglio last summer over all of those pregnant high-schoolers in Gloucester, Mass.? The principal went to the media about a pact…
Camille Paglia Doesn’t Know Anything About Terrorism, and Thus Shouldn’t Write About It
By Jesse Singal - Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:26 pmCamille Paglia has a new column out, providing us all with yet more rich fodder for ridicule. It would be easy to tear apart her…
Bizarre Foreign Policy Decisions Biting Us In The Ass
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 5th, 2008 at 3:55 pmRemember in late 2006, when an Islamist group named the Islamic Courts Union took over large swathes of Somalia and brought the first functioning (albeit…
Overparsing
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 4th, 2008 at 10:32 amI guess Robert Dreyfuss was really fresh out of inspiration for a blog post, because his analysis of Obama’s measured, perfectly innocuous response to the…
We Still Aren’t Focusing on WMDs
By Jesse Singal - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 11:50 amFrom The Washington Post:
The odds that terrorists will soon strike a major city with weapons of mass destruction are now better than even, a…
Youth Politics, Lebanon-style
By Jesse Singal - Nov 21st, 2008 at 11:45 amHezbollah is so hot right now:
RIYAQ, Lebanon — On a Bekaa Valley playing field gilded by late-afternoon sun, hundreds of young men wearing Boy…
Are We Sure Waziristan Has Much to Do With National Security?
By Jesse Singal - Nov 18th, 2008 at 11:17 amJuan Cole’s entire article on whether President-elect Obama should emphasize the hunt for Osama bin Laden is worth a read, but this paragraph, near the…
Neoconservatives Prepare to Re-enter Cryogenic Sleep
By Jesse Singal - Nov 6th, 2008 at 5:34 pmThinkProgress reports that Bill Kristol wants to make sure displaced neoconservatives have a warm, comfy home during the potentially barren years ahead: a sequel, of…
Pakistanis Aren’t Dancing in the Streets
By Jesse Singal - Nov 6th, 2008 at 2:44 pmVia Juan Cole, check out this Al Jazeera English look at how Pakistanis reacted to Barack Obama’s victory:
Understandably, a much more measured response.
(Cole’s…
Thoughts on the Brain Stem Controlling Fred Kagan and His Buddies
By Jesse Singal - Nov 3rd, 2008 at 5:40 pmVia Spencer Ackerman, Fred Kagan had a pretty remarkable op-ed in Friday’s Wall Street Journal that I had missed until now. Check out Spencer’s post,…
BREAKING: ATF Breaks Up Obama Murder Plot
By Jesse Singal - Oct 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pmTerrifying:
WASHINGTON (AP) — The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102…
Terror Via Tweets
By Jesse Singal - Oct 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pmGizmodo has an interesting post, via Danger Room, on the scary possibility of terrorists using Twitter as an organizing tool. If we were serious about…
Palin: Abortion Clinic Bombers Aren’t Necessarily Terrorists
By Jesse Singal - Oct 24th, 2008 at 9:35 amVia reddit, Sarah Palin made a curious statement during a Brian Williams interview that aired last night:
Palin resisted the suggestion that if [Bill] Ayers…
Nuclear Terrorism: No Biggie
By Dylan Matthews - Oct 22nd, 2008 at 1:49 pmHere’s an upper: RAND’s Brian Jenkins, who’s been studying the subject for several years, argues that nuclear terrorism isn’t that grave a threat to the…
