Monatsarchive: Juni 2016

For, like the printing press, television is nothing less than a philosophy of rhetoric. To talk seriously about television, one must therefore talk of epistemology. All other commentary is in itself trivial. —Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death, (New York: … Weiterlesen →

“Barack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al Qaeda went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama’s failures,“ McCain said, according to The Washington … Weiterlesen →

„It just hits you like a ton of bricks when you think about it,“ fumed a senior officer who has been in the military for nearly thirty years and was in Afghanistan when he had this revelation. „The Department of … Weiterlesen →

In a press conference, President Obama said the shooting at the Orlando nightclub Pulse, which claimed 51 lives so far, marked the deadliest in United States history. I think he means the deadliest by non-state actors: Waco Siege, February 28 … Weiterlesen →

When I and one of my staff met with Ashcroft early in the Administration, we were left wondering if his discussion with us had been an act. My associate asked me on the drive back to the White House, „He … Weiterlesen →

Clarke rejects the idea of a missile shooting down TWA 800 and suggests a connection between Khalid Sheik Muhammad and Terry Nichols on succeeding pages. see Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004), pp. 126-27.