Month August 2006

Altered oceans

The LA Times has a comprehensive five-part series on “the crisis in the oceans.” Garbage and pollution from man enters the oceans, creates toxic slime that kills fish and sickens any one near it. This is excellent reporting, enhanced by…

Hezbollah wages new generation of warfare

“I think that there is, perhaps for the first time, a very real possibility that the fourth-generation non-state force will win at the tactical and physical levels…” — William Lind, director of the Center for Cultural Conservatism at the Free…

Iraqi civil war

It has already begun, U.S. troops say From Riverbend in Baghdad I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever know just how many hundreds of thousands of Iraqis left the country this bleak summer. I wonder how many of them will actually…