Charles Glass
Charles Glass was ABC News Chief Middle East Correspondent from 1983 to 1993. His books include Tribes with Flags (Atlantic Monthly Press,1990) and Americans in Paris: Life and Death Under Nazi Occupation (Penguin Press, 2010).
Panic
Stéphane Hessel: From Resistance to IndignanceJanuary 16, 2011 Late last year, a small book by a ninety-three-year-old man unexpectedly |
Journalism
On Guarding the Public’s Right to Ignorance and Meeting With Julian AssangeJanuary 12, 2011 We must hang together, gentlemen…else, we shall most assuredly hang |
History
Henry Kissinger’s FakepolitikJanuary 03, 2011 Henry Kissinger should emulate Old Marley’s ghost, which “floated out upon |
News
Boeing Boeing GoneDecember 20, 2010 You can fly safely this Christmas knowing that hundreds of federal agencies and |
News
The Secular Fatwa on Julian AssangeDecember 13, 2010 In February 1989, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa inciting the faithful to |
Uncle Sam
The Spy Who Taxed MeDecember 06, 2010 Everyone is a spy now. The state has always spied on its citizens, but the lens |
Terror!
U.S. Intelligence Falls for Make-Believe MullahNovember 29, 2010 Sometimes a story brings an era into focus, and that story now is the saga of |
Terrorism
The Drifting Capital of TerrorNovember 14, 2010 The printer cartridge bombs which nearly blew up U.S.-bound commercial jets |
Israel
Why Libertarians Should Support the PalestiniansNovember 08, 2010 Israel is at it again, caught by its own free press with its hand in the |
News
Police Provoke Violence in FranceOctober 31, 2010 Congress shall make no law…abridging…the right of the people peaceably to |
Middle East Conflict
Let it Leak: Wikileaks and Patriotic Whistle-BlowingOctober 25, 2010 Spare a kind thought for my old friend Michael Morrell’s oldest son, Geoff, |
Israel
Israel’s Great Loyalty Oath CrusadeOctober 18, 2010 Captain Black from Catch-22 is back, but this time he’s Israel’s Foreign |
Real Estate
How To Save VeniceOctober 10, 2010 An international shouting match is underway over the fate of the city everyone |
Political Truths
Bring Out Your Dead (to Vote)October 03, 2010 An Irishman’s home is his coffin. —James Joyce, Ulysses The dead use a |
International Affairs
The French ProblemSeptember 19, 2010 Is this a Jewish joke or a Gypsy joke? What do you get when a Jew and a Gypsy |
Idiocracy
Thank God for Koran BurningsSeptember 13, 2010 No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for |
International Affairs
Bill Polk’s Afghan Policies: Well Worth ImplementingSeptember 08, 2010 When a respected eighty-one year old scholar who has known Afghanistan since |
Politics
Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, and Privatized WarAugust 23, 2010 Sixty-six years ago this month, the American and Free French forces landed in |
Tyranny
Who Killed Kurdish Journalist Sardasht Osman?August 16, 2010 This is no time to be a journalist, especially if you happen to be a Kurd. |
Middle East Conflict
Not Another War on LebanonAugust 09, 2010 My old friend Norman Finkelstein has just written a foreword to a new edition |
Lit Crit
Under Siege: On Emma WilliamsAugust 06, 2010 In October 2000 most of the children invited by Dr. Emma Williams to her son |
Corrida
Catalonia Bullfighting Ban: Purely Political and Totally ImpracticalAugust 02, 2010 At the end of the film Little Caesar, the gangster Enrico Bandello, played by |
Catholic Spin
Failure to ExcommunicateJuly 26, 2010 The Catholic Church raised me. The Immaculate Heart nuns who supervised my |
International Affairs
War, Women, and the TalibanJuly 19, 2010 It’s only dire necessity That’s taking me to war; And if I were a moneyed |
Lit Crit
Chomsky’s Inner ConservativeJuly 12, 2010 Noam Chomsky’s new book, Hopes and Prospects, leads me to a conclusion that |
Architecture
Prince Charles Saves Chelsea BarracksJune 28, 2010 Something happened to British architects after the Second World War. Rugged |