Thursday, February 26th, 2004
MORE ON MEL GIBSON’S ” PASSION”
From Juan Cole.
Archive for February, 2004
Thursday, February 26th, 2004
DIDN’T NIXON DO THIS ONCE …AMONG OTHERS ?
An anti-war outfit looks for neocons with names that sound Jewish
Next up, this liberal magazine looks for pundits who might be ” passing “.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
THE CASE THAT WILL NOT DIE – ALGER HISS, SOVIET SPY
More than a half-century after the famous clash between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, the particulars of the case that made Richard Nixon a household name continues to fascinate scholars, intellectuals and the committed political partisans. Most people on the left now grudgingly concede that the accumulated evidence points to Hiss as a secret Communist, traitor, spy and perjurer but the residual attitude toward the case and the figures associated with it can be very revealing, as I argued here.
Frontpagemag.com is running a review of a new Hiss biography while H-Diplo has seen a technical debate over the evidence from the Venona decrypts as it relates to the Hiss case. For those interested in longer pieces I recommend the biography of Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tannenhaus.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
THE EURASIAN FRONT
I received a nice plug the other day over at Winds of Change – thanks guys – and since they are looking at Eurasia I thought they might find the following story on regional security cooperation with the United States interesting.
Wednesday, February 25th, 2004
CIA PREDICTS STABILITY OF HARDLINE REGIME IN IRAN
Go here. Of, course, these are the same guys who said Iran did not have a nuclear program either for much of the 1990’s.
The Khameini-Rafsanjani Hardliners, in my view, will only stabilize their control if they can deliver economic growth – something their ideology and mania for control mitigate against. Widespread unpopularity and unemployment are an explosive combination for any regime.
