Deepak Chopra on Mumbai attacks and "war on terror"
With the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India, for the past two days, CNN viewers in the U.S. have been getting the international CNN feed, rather than the mostly crap CNN …
Can one mad Englishman save the world with pomegranates?
I firmly believe that one person can change the world, and this story illustrates how it can happen. James Brett took a business trip to Pakistan in 1999 and, as …
Campaign 2008: WOT in perspective
Matthew Yglesius looks at Romney, and sees a pathetic, clueless bedwetter: The idea that we should be laying awake at night afraid that a group of at most several thousand …
War on Terror: misnamed, misguided and mismanaged
There’s nothing like a bad metaphor to really sow misunderstanding and mayhem. When the thing being described is as serious and complicated as the threat from stateless terrorists, the consequences …
Good questions
From Cenk Uygur at Huffpo: How Many Civilians Do You Have to Kill Before You Become a Terrorist? The United States and Israel love to throw around the word “terrorist.” …