Kurt Jacobsen

Agitprop, by any other name, is still agitprop. Even our heartiest approval of a refreshingly candid viewpoint within this dubious medium doesn’t change that fact. But so what? In the trumped-up second Gulf war, didn’t the mainstream U.S. media, as anchorman Dan Rather admitted with the saving grace of traces of shame, operate, as if…

In the late 19th century German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck brusquely remarked that the Balkans, always a rough neighborhood, ‘were not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier.” Every national leader grapples with difficult decisions as to the best application of limited resources to unlimited foreign ambitions.  So how many Western lives is Iraq…

Bianca Jagger is a prominent spokeswoman for human rights, social justice and environmental protection in a wide variety of threatened locales. Born in Nicaragua, she studied political science in Paris, married and divorced Mick Jagger, and became deeply involved in upheavals across Latin America. From the late 1970s onward she worked unstintingly with humanitarian organizations…