Month: January 2010

Many of BT readers probably recall that the only reports coming out of Gaza during the Israeli incursion exactly a year ago was from Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse. Cast Lead Apart from his work in Gaza, Professor...

. Astounishing, see video of discussion with citizens of Yemen. Apparently these people appreciate the U.S. giving them support. Clearly they have worse enemies of their state: Iran foremost and Saudi Arabia waging war on their...

I’m a progressive critic of the lackluster (to put it kindly) efforts of the Democrats over the past year in fighting Republican obstruction and carrying through on the programs and promises they campaigned on in 2008 to...

Jerome a Paris wrote a provocative and interesting diary at Daily Kos yesterday. I have a few problems with its construction, which I’ll mention, but it’s worth looking at his overall point. My first problem is that...

I wonder about the seeming expansion of Muslim-on-Muslim suicide bombing we first saw in Iraq and are now seeing in Pakistan. Are there religious authorities that are sanctioning this? Most of these attacks are Sunni vs....