You've both been waiting so patiently
for my weekly recap of what went on at MyDD this weekend.
I will keep you waiting no more.
First up was The More Troops, the Less We Know, a short post on the state of information freedom. Back in 2005, Russ Kick, proprietor of a website called the Memory Hole submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Defense Department to get photographs of the remains of U.S. soldiers coming home through Dover Air Force Base. DOD first denied the request, then relented on appeal; the resulting images are some of the few we have of the human cost of the Iraq War. As the U.S. prepares to send more American servicemembers into battle, we consider the Bush Administration habit of restricting the American people's access to information on the deeds done in their name.
What's the Heck is Going on in Somalia? The Pentagon indicated last week that U.S. troops were sent into Somalia to assess the results of al-Qaeda targeted airstrikes, the first time that American forces had entered the country since 1993. Yet press reports seem to say that a handful of American "advisors" marched into the capital city of Mogadishu with Ethiopian soldiers way back at the end of December. Just what is going down in the Horn of Africa? The tiny nation of Djibouti, hosts to U.S. "anti-terrorism" efforts in the region, say they just don't know either.
While
on the treadmill at the gym on Sunday morning, I watched Senator Obama on Face
the Nation and said to myself "hmm, wonder if that man right there
is gonna run for President." America
Won't Wait Forever, Mr. Obama was a light-hearted poll to find
out whether MyDDers thought the senator from Illinois was is in or out. You're
not going to want to miss the comments on that one. (Update -- Obama announced
today that he has filed with the FEC to form a presidential exploratory committee.
I'm thinking of titling my next MyDD post, "Mr. Obama, I Need a New Car.")
TIm Karr is both a heck of a nice guy and the Campaign Director of Free Press, a media reform group. Meet Tim Karr of Free Press is the first in what I'm hoping might become a regular feature, wherein I conduct informal interviews with progressive-leaning folks via instant messenger, and then post the chats with light editing. I happen to think it's important for people working together in the same political space to get to know one another as well as possible. (Hey, if you're interesting and progressive and believe in your heart that other left-leaning folks should learn more about you, perhaps you should be the subject of the next Scola Quickie Interview®.)
First up was The More Troops, the Less We Know, a short post on the state of information freedom. Back in 2005, Russ Kick, proprietor of a website called the Memory Hole submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Defense Department to get photographs of the remains of U.S. soldiers coming home through Dover Air Force Base. DOD first denied the request, then relented on appeal; the resulting images are some of the few we have of the human cost of the Iraq War. As the U.S. prepares to send more American servicemembers into battle, we consider the Bush Administration habit of restricting the American people's access to information on the deeds done in their name.
What's the Heck is Going on in Somalia? The Pentagon indicated last week that U.S. troops were sent into Somalia to assess the results of al-Qaeda targeted airstrikes, the first time that American forces had entered the country since 1993. Yet press reports seem to say that a handful of American "advisors" marched into the capital city of Mogadishu with Ethiopian soldiers way back at the end of December. Just what is going down in the Horn of Africa? The tiny nation of Djibouti, hosts to U.S. "anti-terrorism" efforts in the region, say they just don't know either.
While
on the treadmill at the gym on Sunday morning, I watched Senator Obama on Face
the Nation and said to myself "hmm, wonder if that man right there
is gonna run for President." America
Won't Wait Forever, Mr. Obama was a light-hearted poll to find
out whether MyDDers thought the senator from Illinois was is in or out. You're
not going to want to miss the comments on that one. (Update -- Obama announced
today that he has filed with the FEC to form a presidential exploratory committee.
I'm thinking of titling my next MyDD post, "Mr. Obama, I Need a New Car.")TIm Karr is both a heck of a nice guy and the Campaign Director of Free Press, a media reform group. Meet Tim Karr of Free Press is the first in what I'm hoping might become a regular feature, wherein I conduct informal interviews with progressive-leaning folks via instant messenger, and then post the chats with light editing. I happen to think it's important for people working together in the same political space to get to know one another as well as possible. (Hey, if you're interesting and progressive and believe in your heart that other left-leaning folks should learn more about you, perhaps you should be the subject of the next Scola Quickie Interview®.)
