Richard Falk, a United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in the Israeli Occupied Territories, catalogs Israel's violations of internati…
Read moreThat's the title of the Turkish translation of my book , "The Goddess and the Bull," which has just been published by Istanbul-based Ho…
Read moreThat's a pretty cool logo, no? It's the banner for Science 's new policy blog , to which yours truly is proud to be an occasional contrib…
Read moreSo far, a strange silence reigns among commentators and opinion pages in the American news media over Israel's actions in Gaza. While the Bush ad…
Read moreI've raved a number of times about National Public Radio's superb jazz profiles series, but they have really outdone themselves this time wit…
Read moreI hope all readers of Balter's Blog are with their families and loved ones. Very best wishes to my regular readers and the occasional ones too.
Read moreI'm going to cut to the chase and say that this is the basic conclusion of an editorial in today's Los Angeles Times , entitled "Is the…
Read moreHere is a story that gives one hope. According to a story in the French daily Le Monde , three philosophy professors on the way to a conference in K…
Read moreNational Security Archive Update, December 23, 2008 "We can bomb the bejesus out of them all over North Vietnam." Archive Publishes Treasur…
Read moreThe findings of Stanley Milgram, the psychologist whose infamous 1960s studies demonstrated that average people would administer potentially fatal le…
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