By Leah Anthony Libresco, The Huffington Post
16 June 2009
Twit:
(1) twerp: someone who is regarded as contemptible
(2) tease: harass with persistent criticism or carping; aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
I’m guessing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is currently mostly concerned with the second definition. Since the preliminary results for the Iranian election were announced, a steady stream of updates has [...]

The Times, 22 May 2008
Canon Andrew White’s family home is not exactly a rambling rectory, but with its peaceful village setting, immaculately tended garden and homely clutter, it is, by most people’s definition, idyllic and utterly conventional.
The problem for Canon White is that he is not a conventional man.
When, as he is occasionally given to [...]

By Christopher Dickey
Newsweek, 12 June 2009
When George Orwell was a young man in the 1920s, he served as a British policeman in the colony of Burma. On duty there he saw, as he put it, “the dirty work of empire at close quarters.” He deplored the “white man’s” oppression of the “native people” in “the [...]

by Norman Solomon
8 June 2009
It takes at least tacit faith in massive violence to believe that after three decades of horrendous violence in Afghanistan, upping the violence there will improve the situation.
Despite the pronouncements from high Washington places that the problems of Afghanistan can?t be solved by military means, 90 percent of the spending [...]

by Tom Engelhardt
Tom Englehardt writes “…you only have to go a modest distance to conclude that we are the other great force on the planet that “doesn’t recognize borders.” Keep in mind that, right now, we’re fighting at least two-and-a-half wars thousands of miles from this sylvan campus, and in your name no less. When [...]