Tag: Tony Blair

Sunday Papers: The UK Iraq War Inquiry

Filed in National by on November 29, 2009 3 Comments

We haven’t done this for awhile, but this effort by the British to take a hard look at how they came to be involved in the Iraq War doesn’t seem to have gotten much press stateside. So far, I’ve seen one NYT article (this post written on 11/28, tho) and heard some NPR reports.

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Read All About It in the Sunday Papers-Labor Day Weekend Edition

Filed in International, National by on September 6, 2009 10 Comments

LEAD STORY-The (UK) Observer: Former Brazilian PM Urges End to ‘Disaster’,  AKA “The War On Drugs” Seriously, does ANYone ANYwhere on the political spectrum agree that this unmitigated disaster makes sense? The human toll in many of the countries in Latin America and South America has been incalculable: “After decades of overflights, interdictions, spraying and raids […]

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