Archive for February, 2007
February 10th, 2007
Gone Fishing
Dr. Khumalo In case you’re wondering why I’ve gone a little quiet on the big themes, it’s because I’m home, in Cape Town, for a couple of weeks. And the most charming thing I’ve seen in the 24 hours I’ve been here is a TV ad that recalls some of what I’ve been thinking about [...]
February 5th, 2007
On Iran, Will the Media Pay Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain?
The U.S. media with very few exceptions enabled the catastrophic war in Iraq by its failure to challenge the core assumptions on which the march to war was based — assumptions which were patently false — patently, that is, for anyone daring to break with a nationalist consensus fueled by demagogues in the Administration and [...]
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