In case you missed it, John Burns, who was the New York Times bureau chief in Iraq until recently, had a wonderful essay in yesterday's paper, "What Cats Know about War." You can read it here. Burns is a very interesting character. You'll find an interview with him from The Independent (a UK paper) here, and there's a long conversation with him on video at the Frontline Club.
Alexander Cockburn delivered a nice skewering of Al Gore and the Nobel Committee in Counterpunch over the weekend. Click here to read it. Cockburn is a skeptic on the subject of anthropogenic global warming, but even if you can't follow him there (I can't), he's still dead on about Prince Al and the Peace Prize.
If the recent posts about Congo have gotten you interested in that troubled place, you might want to check out Christian Parenti's article in a recent issue of The Nation, "The Fight to Save Congo's Forests." You'll find it here, along with a video. The Nation has also posted a 1953 Congo story from its archives. I haven't read it yet, but it looks worth reading. It's here.
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