The liberal media by Eric Alterman AIPAC's Complaint [from the May 1, 2006 issue] The University of Chicago's John Mearsheimer is among America's most admired political scientists. Stephen Walt is the academic dean and a chaired professor …

Yedioth Aharonoth (p. M16) by Meron Rappaport -- [May 23, 2003] http://www.gush-shalom.org/thewall/index.html The maps that Sharon's people asked for were the maps that Prof. Sofer, a geographer at Haifa University and the prophet of "the …

by IAN WILLIAMS マデリーン・オルブライトの回想録"Madam Secretary"の書評。 [from the February 23, 2004 issue] A noticeable aspect of her memoirs is the convenient lacunae whenever she tries to cover her own rear and secondly Bill Clinton's-…

By Yitzhak Laor A real discussion should begin with the fact that some of the immigrants are Ashkenazi and some aren't; some found a place for themselves in the Israeli economy, while others are wretchedly poor; some have been assimilated …

By Johann Hari JOHANN HARI (johannhari.com) is a columnist for the Independent in London. November 6, 2006 This summer, Emmanuel Reinert, executive director of the Senlis Council, an independent, Brussels-based think tank, commissioned mor…

By Michael Abramowitz and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, November 12, 2006; A01 Those familiar with the panel's work predict that the ultimate recommendations will not appear novel and that there are few, if any, goo…

10 Nov 2006 19:44:53 GMT Source: Reuters Lawrence Eagleburger, who briefly served as secretary of state under President George W. Bush's father, will replace Defense secretary-designate Bob Gates on the blue-ribbon study group that is expe…

Volume 43, Number 14 · September 19, 1996 By Joan Didion ジョーン・ディディオンのボブ・ウッドワード評。 Here is where we reach the single unique element in the method, and also the problem. As any prosecutor and surely Mr. Woodward knows, …

By MICHAEL JANOFSKY Published: February 19, 2006 ギャディスの"The Cold War: A New History"があんなにネオコン染みてたのはそういうわけか。 WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 ― One of the perquisites of being president is the ability to have the author of a…

By Krishna Guha, Edward Luce and Andrew Ward Published: November 2 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 2 2006 02:00 Median wage stagnation。 protectionist populismってのはよく分かる表現だな。 Mr Drake is among millions of educated middle-c…

November 3, 2006 By JAMES GLANZ Investigations led by a Republican lawyer named Stuart W. Bowen Jr. in Iraq have sent American occupation officials to jail on bribery and conspiracy charges, exposed disastrously poor construction work by w…

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, northern Iraq Published: 07 November 2006 ハリルザドまでcut and runか……。 Zalmay Khalilzad, the US envoy in Baghdad who tried to conciliate the Sunni people, is to leave his post in the next few months said a …

November 5, 2006 By DEXTER FILKINS Once Iraq’s anointed leader ― anointed by the Americans ― Chalabi, at age 62, is without a job, spurned by the very colleagues whose ascension he engineered. His benefactors in the White House and in the …

By Nora Boustany Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A21 The International Criminal Court is set to begin its first case this week in The Hague, where a three-judge panel is to hear charges and evidence against C…

By Colum Lynch Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A25 As the Bush administration struggles to rally international pressure on Iran to halt its nuclear program, China and Russia are working to take the most powerful…

By N.C. Aizenman Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, November 5, 2006; Page A20 Here in Nicaragua, however, the vote is being viewed less as a referendum on Ortega's 11-year rule after his guerrilla forces seized power in 1979 than as …

American government was not designed for one-party rule but for rule by consensus -- so this current batch of Republicans has found a way to work around that product design. They have scuttled both the spirit and the letter of congressiona…

Tony Judt"Postwar"の書評。 Judt, however, is impervious to religion, unmoved by music and rather complacent about non-French and non-political branches of art and culture. Parisian intellectual warlords and east European dissidents, though…

If you are strong, and you are fighting the weak for any period of time, you are going to become weak yourself. If you behave like a coward then you are going to become cowardly – it’s only a question of time. The problem is that you canno…

Beijing has put on its best face to court Africa, “the land of myth and miracles,” as official posters call it. Political leaders of 48 of the 53 African countries, including 40 heads of state, are to arrive this weekend for a huge diploma…

The state-controlled company Gazprom said Thursday that it wants to more than double the price of natural gas for Russia's southern neighbor Georgia in 2007. The sharp increase, if implemented, is likely to reopen the debate on whether Rus…

オリヴィエ・ロワ。経歴は以下。 Olivier Roy is a professor at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences in Paris (Ehess) and the author of The Failure of Political Islam (Harvard University Press, 1994), The New Central Asia: The Cr…

なぜか今頃フィリップ・ゼリコウのプロファイルがNYTに（10月28日）。ゼリコウは政治学者、国際関係学者。ライスの友人で共著もあり。9/11委員会のexecutive directorを務めたり、ブッシュ・ドクトリンを形式化したThe National Security Strategyの草稿を書…

イスラエルの著名な軍事学者、軍事史家のマーティン・ファン・クレフェルトのイラク戦争について記事。著書に『補給戦』、"The Transformation of War"など。内容はタイトル通り。結論は以下。 For misleading the American people, and launching the most …

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.