Noam Chomsky debated Alan Dershowitz at Harvard yesterday. Obviously, Dershowitz soon regressed to shouting and personal abuse. Some thoughts over at Metafilter. Even if one agrees with Dershowitz, no one can say that his style of debate is either eloquent nor decisive. Better luck in the jeering court room.
I’d still like to see Finkelstein debate [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
Infowar indeed. This it but the really explicit example of the sort of Hollywood-inspired nonsense the US has us all living in.
LATimes - As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
So the riots in France didn’t prod anyone in the right direction. In fact it seems they served only to prove what people think they already knew. And now comes a hard hitting slew of new laws that are supposed to, well, bring law-and-order.
Guardian - France Tightens Controls on Immigration - Authorities will increase enforcement [...]
Continue Reading November 30th, 2005 Björn Hallberg
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