Sunday, October 8th, 2006
Thomas Friedman is the foreign affairs columnist for The New York Times. He has been awarded three Pulitzer Prizes for international reporting and commentary, and has written several books including The Lexus and the Olive Tree and, most recently, The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century.
Below is a link to an interview with Friedman from The Harvard International Review. Hmmm…
Read here
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
Fareed Zakaria reminds us (warns us?) that China, “is a country whose scale dwarfs the United States. 1.3 billion people, four times America’s population. For more than a hundred years it was dreams of this magnitude that fascinated small groups of American missionaries and businessmen. 1 billion souls to save; 2 billion armpits to deodorize, but it never amounted to anything. China was very big, but very poor. All that is changing. But now the very size and scale that seemed so alluring is beginning to look ominous.”
Read it here
Respond to these questions
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
In a recent dialogue with my beloved AP Foreign and Comparative Politics students I learned that, though they recognize and appreciate the power the internet to transform political culture, they are seemingly unaware of alternative media sources online. Thus, in an effort to wean them from CNN’s intellectual stultification, I offer the following alternatives to the mainstream:
From the Left:
CounterPunch: http://www.counterpunch.org/
Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/
Harper’s Weekly: http://www.harpers.org/
In These Times: http://www.inthesetimes.com/
The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/
The Progressive: http://www.progressive.org/
Utne Reader: http://www.utne.com/
ZMagazine (The Spirit of Resistance): http://zmag.org/
Towards the Center, More or Less:
BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Economist: http://economist.com/index.cfm
Foreign Affairs Magazine: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
Harvard International Review: http://hir.harvard.edu/
National Public Radio: http://www.npr.org/
New York Times: http://nytimes.com/
Slate Magazine: http://slate.com/
Time Magazine: http://www.time.com/time/
From the Right:
American Conservative: http://www.amconmag.com/
National Review: http://www.nationalreview.com/
New Republic: http://www.tnr.com/
Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/
Amusing Alternatives to “Real” News:
The Onion: http://www.theonion.com/content/
The Specious Report: http://www.thespeciousreport.com/
Bob From Accounting: http://www.bobfromaccounting.com/
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