now we know: It was Karl Rove, left, who
Archives for July 2005
JOHN GRAY ON AL QAEDA
John Gray, my preferred philosopher, says on the first page of one of his handy little books: “No cliché is more stupefying than that which describes Al Qaeda as a throwback to medieval times.” He goes on to point out that its “closest precursors are the revolutionary anarchists of late-nineteenth-century Europe.” Not a view widely […]
AN AL QAEDA PRIMER
Terrorism: Questons & Answers. In the wake of the claim of responsibility, still not authenticated, it’s worth reading if only as a reminder of some essentials, i.e.: “What is al-Qaeda?” (The words are Arabic for “the base”), “What are al-Qaeda’s origins?” (the Services Office, a clearinghouse for the international Muslim brigade opposed to the 1979 […]
SAUVE QUI PEUT
Web connection down. Staff of thousands helpless. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
E-Z G-WHIZ G-8 STUFF
thousands of demonstrators demanded an end to the Iraq war, debt relief for Africa, and action on global warming. So debt relief for Africa, these are the key questions: • What are the current plans? • What exactly does Blair’s plan call for? • How would the financing mechanism (known as the Millenium Challenge Account)? […]
WHAT IS ROVER BOY HIDING?
If Karl Rove did not out Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA agent, one of Cooper’s confidential sources, what is he still hiding? That he’s an arrogant S.O.B., EmailFacebookTwitterReddit
GARRISON KEILLOR: ‘VIVA FERLINGHETTI’
The Prairie Home Companion’s man from Lake Wobegone met the They sat and talked in a cafe in San Francisco’s North Beach, and Keillor wrote: “Here is an 83-year-old artist whose eyes are bright and who, while furious at the Administration, rides his bicycle through the city he loves and enjoys its courtesies and graces […]
MILTON GLASER ♥ DISSENT
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To keep Independence Day from becoming a more empty patriotic ritual than usual, let’s celebrate the hearty dissenter Milton Glaser, designer of many famous logos and symbols such as interviewed on PBS’s “NOW” about the “Design of Dissent Exhibit” at the School of Visual Arts in New York, and his and Mirko Ilic’s new book, […]
LIVE 8 STREAMS LIVE IN GLOBAL WEBCAST
I’ve been watching the global feed of Live 8, which is being streamed online in an AOL webcast. At the moment the global feed is showing Dido onstage in London, where the scene looks too dull to watch. But you can also switch to Rome, where the camera crew is really flying — not a […]
LIVE 8 MEETS G-8 MEETS JEFFREY SACHS
As world leaders gather for the international summit in Scotland next week, our war prez is suddenly getting too much good p.r. from friendly headlines here in The New York Times, as well as a Not to mention the worldwide attention tied to the celebrity-studded Bob Geldof, left, and taking place this weekend — in […]
R.I.P.: CHET HELMS IS DEAD (FOR REAL THIS TIME)
Anyone who remembers San Francisco’s hippie “summer of love” may appreciate this died last week. It includes Paul Krassner’s story about a news article that claimed Helms had died when he was still very much alive. “So Chet decided to produce his own combination wake and resurrection,” Krassner writes. He hired a hearse and a […]
SAMMY’S WHITE DREAMS
changed his mind about Wil Haygood’s flat-out rave. The prose may not have the mandarin elegance Terry prefers, but it’s plenty beautiful. EmailFacebookTwitterReddit