Ray McGovern at Consortium News had an opinion that got him booted out of the hearings with General Patraeus. If memory serves, the aforementioned generals and Westmoreland were required to testify under oath. And this was one of the main sticking points when CBS aired a program showing that Westmoreland had deliberately dissembled on the […]

Media Matters points to another ‘objective opinion’ in the press. Who is able to follow the money? Since 2004, Clifford D. May, former Republican National Committee communications director and president of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), has appeared in the media several times to defend the administration’s conduct of the Iraq war […]

The Washington Post carried an article by General Patreaus in 2004. Still the optomist. Nonetheless, there are reasons for optimism. Today approximately 164,000 Iraqi police and soldiers (of which about 100,000 are trained and equipped) and an additional 74,000 facility protection forces are performing a wide variety of security missions. Equipment is being delivered. Training […]

Yahoo news has reported a straight forward comment by David Walker of the GAO on interpretation of the statistics of The Interview forthcoming today. It is like reading oracles to interpret the future. Central information remains unavailable, but feel free to interpret. Some reports say Petraeus will argue that sectarian violence in Iraq has fallen […]

After catching up with this week’s posts and comments, this article caught my attention as a method that also strikes a chord to protect oneself from the vagaries of the world. It is another way technology, economics, and values can come together. Somehow it brought up all sorts of associations to mind, one being the […]

The New England Journal of Medicine had a statement that caught my attention that bore on the topic started on this post and this post about safety in big pharma and food. …For example, we know that in type 1 diabetes, metabolic control can reduce the risk of microvascular complications. On the other hand, the […]

The BBC News reports: Gwadar port is on the Arabian Sea at the mouth of the Gulf through which 30% of the world’s daily oil supply passes.Officials say the port will benefit Balochistan. That is disputed by Baloch militants fighting the government.The current estimated cost of the port project is nearly $1bn. Much of the […]

Reader JohnA forwarded this article as an update to the toe in the water scenario for implementing WTO GATS policy. The New York Times article suggests possibilities. Antigua is best known to Americans for its pristine beaches and tourist attractions like historic English Harbor. But the dozens of online casinos based there are vital to […]

The Houston Chronicle comments on the American Psychological Association and the recent national meeting regarding psychologists’ role in interrogation. One of the mental health profession’s strengths is its grasp of ambiguity. Love and hate, rage and attraction, altruism and greed can coexist in the same person, and practitioners help clients accept that.The Hippocratic oath, on […]

We have a lot of discussion about the moral hazard of Iraq, related to life (the trump card), but I think we need more discussion concerning the policies related to the flow of money because after all, this is an econo blog. Thus, these two articles. The first one: The Great Iraq Swindle (RollingStone) and […]