Author: david

In the post below, I said, ” So, I would appreciate hearing from those ‘of a certain age’: Did you learn about this at the time. Or only later? Or never, until now?” Thanks for the replies! “I remember it happening and have heard many reports since, but I was in the Army for much…

…about these student killings at the time? Mexico Charges Ex-President in ’68 Massacre, AP, 7/1/06 “Echeverria was interior secretary, a powerful position overseeing domestic security, when Mexican troops ambushed mostly peaceful student protests at Mexico City’s Tlatelolco Plaza on Oct. 2, 1968, just before the capital hosted the Olympics. Officially, 25 people were killed, though…

NYT “[In 2005] Amir Attaran, a law professor at the University of Ottawa and fiery advocate on malaria…testified that the American agency, the United States Agency for International Development, was too cozy with ‘the foreign aid industrial complex.’ “Only 1 percent of the agency’s 2004 malaria budget went for medicines, 1 percent for insecticides and…

President Bush has been basking in the unanimity he fashioned concerning Iran among the “Five plus One” countries: the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council (US, UK, France, Russia, and China) plus Germany. With this diplomatic triumph, Bush is shedding his image of “My way or the highway” unilateralism. But only at the cost…

In case you missed it… In 2003, U.S. Spurned Iran’s Offer of Dialogue–Some Officials Lament Lost Opportunity By Glenn Kessler, Washington Post Staff Writer, Sunday, June 18, 2006; Page A16 Just after the lightning takeover of Baghdad by U.S. forces three years ago, an unusual two-page document spewed out of a fax machine at the…