The Reading Room
     


                     JOHN TIRMAN


The Reading Room

The best reading--books, articles, op-eds, analysis--on public policy issues relevant to the new administration's manifold tasks. This is drawn from the worlds of universities, think tanks, journalists, and others who have done the empirical work to present factual, often original, observations and make it understandable and useful.

But first, think about a year-end contribution to these fine groups doing important work.


The New Terror

The Right Wing's promotion of terrorism:

Robert Wright in the New York Times: "Who Created Major Hasan?"

My article in the Boston Globe (Nov. 27, 2009)

Simon and Stevenson: "The greatest shock of Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's murderous spree at Fort Hood . . . may not have been the spree itself, but the fact that it was the first of its kind in the United States."


And now terrorizing the public on climate science: Read


New Resources on the War in Afghanistan - cases for withdrawal

The Iran Crisis, and Opportunity


MIT-Harvard Gaza Symposium: Statement
The need for a new policy of accountability and human rights

The Goldstone Report here



Bush's War Dead - 1 million
Doing the math, from The Nation and AlterNet

What would a "Liberal Foreign Policy" look like? see it here

The New American Frontier, AmSch My look backwards and forwards to provide a bigger canvas for the new Obama era, from The American Scholar

 

 


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READINGS :: TOPICS

ECONOMIC LIFE & HEALTH

   CLIMATE CHANGE

AFGHANISTAN

IRAN    TERRORISM

IMMIGRATION

IRAQ WAR


Audits of the Conventional Wisdom (from MIT) for foreign policy insights on a broad range of issues


Human Cost of the Iraq War

For news, reports, analysis, videos and blogs about the cost of the war to Iraqis



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ON IRAQ WAR MORTALITY:

Iraq mortality study given thumbs up in JHU review:
READ

Analysis of the media controversy stirred by the National Journal   Annotated analysis.

A solid assessment here from Center for Media and Democracy

Boston Globe op-ed: Iraq's Murky Toll

Mother Jones (Nov. 2008): Iraq war math

Media Lens analysis



House testimony (June 11, 2008) on America's values in the world   and the video (at 42:50)

Tribute to Randy Forsberg, Boston Globe, Oct 30, 2007

 


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