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Lack of Coverage on Transgendered Pakistanis Shows Bias in U.S. Media
The Huffington Post Posted: August 19, 2009 03:44 PM By Sanjeev Bery It probably wasn’t the first time that someone had organized an Independence Day cricket match in Pakistan. But it almost certainly was the first time that such a match occurred between a team of professional cricket players and a team of transgendered Pakistanis.…
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The Death of Robert McNamara
It is tough to know what do to with the passing of a man who was an architect of the Vietnam War — and who later expressed remorse for it. Three million Vietnamese died, and 60,000 Americans were killed in combat. Jonathan Schell’s piece in The Nation on former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara…
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The Sovietologist Speaks
A good book review is a platform for a skilled sweep of history and society. Andrew O’Hehir’s Salon.com review of The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown rises to this standard. The focus of O’Hehir’s write-up is the recent work of a retired Oxford Sovietologist and former informal adviser to Margaret Thatcher. Despite…
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Israel’s Ban on Crayons
The Huffington Post Posted: June 18, 2009 11:09 AM By Sanjeev Bery Israel’s massive blockade of Gaza continues, but it is easy to lose sight of what this really means. As the BBC reports, the blockade is so extensive that the Israeli government even bars musical instruments from entering the territory. Little is allowed to…