tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73442005866951700592022-03-20T07:12:30.883-07:00Civilian Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978134983999101494noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344200586695170059.post-68655620117922620412012-09-09T18:30:00.001-07:002012-09-09T18:30:06.736-07:00<p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Georgia">My Twitter stream was pretty busy today over Jeremy Scahill, <em>The Nation</em>’s foreign policy journalist, and his stance on President Obama’s foreign policy which he voiced on Chris Hayes’s show, to much push-back from his fellow guests. The video’s split in two (both below), and I think Scahill makes a lot of very good points – some of which the other guests don’t want to accept, in turn reinforcing one of Scahill’s first points about the media and how they cover and represent President Obama’s foreign policy…</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Georgia"><strong>Clip 1:</strong></font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px auto; padding-left: 0px; width: 513px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:86c3332f-5bcc-4353-851b-94e180bf1aa8" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div><object width="513" height="298" id="msnbc8553b" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=48959382&amp;width=513&amp;height=298" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc8553b" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="513" height="298" FlashVars="launch=48959382&amp;width=513&amp;height=298" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com">breaking news</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">world news</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">news about the economy</a></p></div></div> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Georgia"><strong>Clip 2:</strong></font></p> <div style="padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; width: 522px; padding-right: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-top: 0px" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:51ec070d-892a-4b3b-bbc7-32da5630d855" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent"><div><object width="522" height="303" id="msnbc7d9312" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0"><param name="movie" value="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" /><param name="FlashVars" value="launch=48959480&amp;width=522&amp;height=303" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><embed name="msnbc7d9312" src="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640" width="522" height="303" FlashVars="launch=48959480&amp;width=522&amp;height=303" allowscriptaccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 420px;">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;" href="http://www.nbcnews.com">breaking news</a>, <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032507" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">world news</a>, and <a href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032072" style="text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;">news about the economy</a></p></div></div> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Georgia">He finishes off with “I look forward to the <em>ad hominem</em> attacks on Twitter”… And he didn’t have to wait long…</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="3" face="Georgia">On a personal note, I was very happy to hear China inserted into the debate right at the end – pity they didn’t have time to get into it any deeper, but maybe it’ll spur something more in the future.</font></p> Civilian Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978134983999101494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344200586695170059.post-44837264881988192292012-04-20T20:30:00.000-07:002012-04-20T20:30:00.111-07:00Just to let people know, I’ve posted a new review over at the new site:<br /> <br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2012/04/becoming-chinas-bitch-by-peter-d.html"><u>Becoming China’s Bitch by Peter D. Kiernan (Turner)</u></a></em></span></strong></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b2yML1RFPas/T5IpeWIuS6I/AAAAAAAAJ6I/f6Odm_4nkeI/s1600/Kiernan-BecomingChinasBitch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b2yML1RFPas/T5IpeWIuS6I/AAAAAAAAJ6I/f6Odm_4nkeI/s1600/Kiernan-BecomingChinasBitch.jpg" /></a></div><div align="center"><br /></div>Civilian Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978134983999101494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7344200586695170059.post-85528298182856266112012-03-14T07:51:00.001-07:002012-03-17T11:18:19.477-07:00As of yesterday, the whole <em>Politics Reader</em> blog has moved to a more sensible URL:<br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">http://politics-reader.blogspot.com</span></strong></a></div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Please update your browsers, links, etc.</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">And thank you all for reading! (And hopefully continuing to do so...)</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify">Just in case, here are links to the most popular reviews, and the most-searched-for reviews (I'll update this whenever I get the chance):</div><div align="justify"><br /></div><div align="justify"><ul><li>Matthew Baum, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/12/soft-news-goes-to-war-by-matthew-baum.html">Soft News Goes to War</a></em> (Princeton)</li><li>Dan Drezner, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2011/03/theories-of-international-politics.html">Theories of International Politics &amp; Zombies</a></em> (Princeton)</li><li>Matt Taibbi, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/11/griftopia-by-matt-taibbi-spiegel-grau.html">Griftopia</a></em> (Spiegel &amp; Grau)</li><li>Stefan Halper, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/03/beijing-consensus-by-stefan-halper.html">The Beijing Consensus</a></em> (Basic Books)</li><li>Charles I. Pierce, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/08/idiot-america-by-charles-p-pierce.html">Idiot America</a> </em>(Anchor Books)</li><li>Eric Alterman, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2011/01/kabuki-democracy-by-eric-alterman.html">Kabuki Democracy</a></em> (Nation Books)</li><li>Jay Dobyns &amp; Nils Johnson-Shelton, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/08/no-angel-by-jay-dobyns-nils-johnson.html">No Angel</a></em> (Canongate)</li><li>Andrew Bacevich, <em><a href="http://politics-reader.blogspot.com/2010/09/washington-rules-by-andrew-j-bacevich.html">Washington Rules</a></em> (Metropolitan Books)</li></ul></div>Civilian Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10978134983999101494noreply@blogger.com0