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Friday, March 11, 2005

State of the world

A couple things caught my eye today that give us an interesting new perspective on what's going on in the world right now:
Are we in World War IV? is a report in the TomDispatch blog; writer Tom Engelhardt, a long-time observer of world politics, discusses the case that 'neocons' are making that the level of conflict in the world right now is at World War intensity. Between the Iraq war, terrorism, and increasing weapons of mass distruction, policymakers are building up fear, which leads to more retaliation; and in doing so, increase the chance of their fears becoming reality:

"If, on our proliferating planet, we end up, one of these days, with an actual apocalyptic scenario on our hands, it will be too late to thank the GWOT (global war on terror) intellectuals, who took a terrible situation and are managing to turn it into the Schwarzenegger movie from Hell."

Watching America is a new international news site which compiles news from around the world about the U.S. Lots here about the Italian hostage shooting incident in Iraq, for example. Useful to see how the world is reporting these stories.

posted by liz at 12:51 PM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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