The Australian: Bloggers of the world, let’s shop!
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:44
Online culture is thriving in almost every country I visited. The exception is Cuba … Most bloggers prefer to protest privately, anonymously or not at all … Despite their relatively small numbers and the penalties they attract, dissenting bloggers are playing havoc with the established order. According to Human Rights Watch researcher Elijah Zarwan, "bloggers have succeeded in doing something that years of standing on the street corner and shouting 'No to torture' or 'No to the interior ministry' has never managed to accomplish": putting these issues on the public agenda."
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 19:24
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Seymour Hersh’s latest: "This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government cons
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 19:14
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This certainly sounds very, very plausible: "we understand there’s an article coming out in The New Yorker next week, Sy Hirsch [sic] talking about plans the Administration is making to go into Iran in a military way."
Sunday, 30 September 2007, 19:09
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Hersh: "I’m asked the question all the time: What happened to my old paper, the New York Times? And I now say, they stink. They missed it. They missed the biggest story of the time and they’re going to have to live with it."
