France

Mads Gil­bert is a critic of US for­eign policy and of Israel. He also hap­pens to be a Nor­we­gian emer­gency medi­cine spe­cial­ist who is cur­rently work­ing inside Gaza. As a doc­tor, he has shown up in TV reports describ­ing the situ­ation inside his med­ical facil­ity. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under attack him­self, from predictable […]

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Dave Cohn, the force of energy behind Spot.us is host­ing this month’s Car­ni­val of Journ­al­ism. He’s after pre­dic­tions for 2009. Well, I don’t really have a pre­dic­tion of the “Someone will dis­cover a busi­ness model for Twit­ter” vari­ety. It being the sea­son of reflec­tion and all, it’s more an obser­va­tion. It seems to me that we have talked for […]

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This is some of what’s caught my atten­tion in the past hours:

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It depends on the habit of attend­ing to and look­ing into pub­lic trans­ac­tions, and on the degree of inform­a­tion and solid judg­ment respect­ing them that exists in the com­munity, whether the con­duct of the nation as a nation, both within itself and towards oth­ers, shall be selfish, cor­rupt and tyr­an­nical, or rational and enlightened, just and […]

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