I remember waking up a teenager in the late 1980's and realizing that when the
Berlin Wall fell, it was all over for the Soviet Union. I wonder if Katrina
spells
a similar fate for the U.S.
Paul
http://www.lefigaro.com/debats/20050912.FIG0354.html?083700
Emmanuel Todd: The Specter of a Soviet
After a slow start, The US press has rallied in a better than usual way to
challenge the poor handling of the crisis in New Orleans by the US government.
This points up the problem with the media in the US. Though several newspapers
had
published articles about the crisis that was brewing in New
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they've handed out thousands of radios already and plan to do mor
The Daily Mail
Pie ruins Clarkson's top gear
September 12th, 2005
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=362135&in_page_id=1773
Sunday Times columnist Jeremy Clarkson's big day ended in tears this morning
after
a protester hit him in the face with a
(Interesting report from the communication rights campaign coordinator
Se?n ? Siochr? who recently visited Tunisia, the host country for the
second world summit on the information society (wsis) that will take
place in Tunis, mid November. Next week a third and last preparatory
meeting tak
Hallo nettimers --
I thought to remind you of Jacob Holdt, the Danish citizen who traveled in the
US,
making informal snapshots of the people -- mostly impoverished Southerners --
that
he met back in the 70's. While I believe much of the photojournalism from
Katrina
is simply more of the same