http://www.underthesamesun.org/ reflections on a world where the sun never sets en-us 2007-09-27T21:19:44-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/09/#000670 politics zeynep 2007-09-27T21:19:44-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/06/#000669 The site went into a technical black hole while I was traveling last month. I will continue with my irregular posting schedule.Thanks to all who inquired.... site news zeynep 2007-06-18T19:00:51-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/04/#000668 "Meticulously planned," with "multiple victims." "Carnage," "tragedy," devastation." Those were the words used to describe a regular day in Iraq, yesterday, a day when 230 people met a violent death. That's a 9/11, by the way, proportional to the population.... politics zeynep 2007-04-19T15:18:50-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/04/#000667 So the British sailors were blindfolded near men with guns, and that is accepted as prima facie evidence that everything they said in captivity was coerced. And we are somehow supposed to take admissions of guilt by waterboarded, sleep-deprived, locked-up... torture zeynep 2007-04-06T20:46:33-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/03/#000666 Hello blog-readers: it is taking longer than planned for me to get back to regular blogging. I expect I can return in early April. Meanwhile, it is depressing how little has changed. The war (both ours and the rising civil... site news zeynep 2007-03-24T10:26:27-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/02/#000665 The blog is taking a break until this weekend... Meanwhile, my must-read piece for this week is this story. This is what we have come to.... site news zeynep 2007-02-07T20:55:10-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/01/#000664 There is an illuminating story in today's NYT about American soldiers going through Haifa street... It's well worth reading in full. At one point, one of the American soldiers exclaims that it might be better to "do this" without the... war and peace zeynep 2007-01-25T11:37:56-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/01/#000663 At least a hundred people were killed violently today in Iraq. The U.N. reports that this is merely an average day, with 34,000 killed the previous year. So flows the blood.... war and peace zeynep 2007-01-16T18:01:07-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/01/#000662 Newsweek has a piece titled "How the U.S. Is Losing the PR War in Iraq. The P.R.War? And here's some of the problems they highlight: Most large-scale attacks on U.S. forces are now filmed, often from multiple camera angles, and... war and peace zeynep 2007-01-07T12:42:17-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2007/01/#000661 I presume that most decent men and women have already had it with the Ford hagiographies that just don't seem to stop. The men pardoned his buddy who gave him the presidency, proceeded to close the Vietnam chapter as far... politics zeynep 2007-01-02T16:01:24-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2006/12/#000657 A deadly death toll near 100 from mass violence is reported as a sign that things are not out of the ordinary: Iraqis awoke Saturday to television images of a noose being slipped over Saddam Hussein's neck and his white-shrouded... war and peace zeynep 2006-12-31T14:39:14-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2006/12/#000656 I think I saw about a few dozen headlines / op-ed pieces about how "decent" Gerald Ford was. I won't comment on the Watergate era. But how is it decent to know that a war is wrong, to know that... politics zeynep 2006-12-28T12:21:04-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2006/12/#000655 The marines who killed 24 unarmed civilians, many of them women and children, after breaking into their houses in a fit of fury following an IED explosion that killed one of their comrades are about to be charged. You might... war and peace zeynep 2006-12-21T13:28:58-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2006/12/#000654 As Bush makes it clear that we will send even more troops to Iraq, there is very little out there that is not known. I don't think there is anyone outside of Bush's inner circle that is entertaining fantasies of... war and peace zeynep 2006-12-19T21:12:18-05:00 http://www.underthesamesun.org/content/2006/12/#000653 ... but he did not escape disgrace and shame. (I did like the AP story's headline: "Pinochet dies after decade evading trial.) Milton Friedman (whose ideas Pinochet's coup mercilessly imposed), Jeane Kirkpatrick, PW Botha... Based on the emerging pattern, I'd... torture zeynep 2006-12-10T18:16:32-05:00