Gordon's Notes

In the year 2018 it is no longer insane to suspect that the Soviet Union Russia executed a successful multi-year campaign against the Unite...

An acquaintance from my Quebec High School is active in Egypt's secular resistance to Morsi's rule. She's frustrated by Obama...

In the Fever Days after September 2011, I wrote a bit about " the cost of havoc ". The premise was that technology was consistentl...

"... The Guardian newspaper unveiled the results of a year-long investigation purporting to show that U.S. military advisers, with the...

Around the time Spain and Portugal were swarming over the Americas and the European Renaissance was firing up, a semi-divine Sufi Ruler [2] ...

A US Army sergeant murders16 men, women and children -- and all we hear about is his personal hardship. This would be enlightened progress...

Life in the empire of the Kims: How one man escaped from a North Korean prison camp | Books | The Guardian ... The South Korean governmen...

Saddam Hussein, we are told, knew that his weapons of mass destruction were no longer effective. He might not have understood how completely...

Another victim of America's Inquisition : Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor - Murat Kurnaz - NYTimes.com … was taken to Kandahar, in A...

The Atlantic doesn't have this article online yet ... Torturer's Apprentice, Cullen Murphy Jan/Feb 2012 ... The first technique ...

We have been doubly shamed over the past ten years. Once by our embrace of torture, a second time by our inability to prosecute. We can'...

Most things do not end the way I once imagined. The buildings don’t collapse because the foundation is gone. They sag. They fade. For a long...

Now we get to the discussion we’ve long expected. Civilian courts do not allow testimony obtained through torture. The GOP is the party of...

There is no Good in markets  Krugman writes. It's short and good, and it should be read in every high school as an antidote to Marketari...

Fallows blogs (again) about the  infowarrior global telecom map , which includes cables like C2C (emphases mine): Greg's Cable Map :  ...

Family and friends of a young Afghan couple stoned them to death . Did the girl's father throw a stone? Will his sleep be forever tortur...

Is this the last gasp of the Washington Post? At least they're going out in style. Emphases mine. Clearly "top secret" is no...

Kudos to Bob Herbert for actually paying attention to our soldiers in Afghanistan. Bob Herbert - The Courage to Leave Afghanistan - NYTim...

The eternal post 9/11 question. Hamas has an A team - despite a very high mortality rate. Why did one operation kill off al Qaeda's A te...

In a response to the Times scare car bomb attempt [1] James Fallows comments on the alerts that have given orange a bad name ... ... for e...