The Commentary Week in Review is posted on the blog every Friday.Drawing from more than two dozen English-language news outletsworldwide, the column highlights a handful of the week’s notableop-eds.The price of truth continues to rise. Bush should be thinking Brazil, Brazil, Brazil. Egypt could soon end up run by the Muslim Brotherhood. Sunni Muslims aren’t going to buy U.S. claims that Iran is out to get them. The African Union should be done away with. And don’t blame China for the currently plunging world markets. Coming on the heels of reports that Russian journalist Ivan Safronov was working on a [...]
The world’s largest journalist’s group is urging the Russia to aggressively probe the circumstances surrounding the recent death of journalist Ivan Safronov, who according to news reports, was working a story about Russian weapons sales to Syria and Iran when he fell from a fifth-story window in Moscow last week. “Journalists around the world are concerned that another colleague has fallen victim in Russia to people who use violence to silence journalists,” said Aidan White, general secretary of the Brussels based International Federation of Journalists, which on March 6 called on authorities to conduct “a thorough and transparent investigation.” A [...]
Wired magazine is hosting a new defense technology blog called “Danger Room.” Headed up by Noah Shachtman, formerly of DefenseTech.org, it’s worth checking out. (Occasional WPR contributor David Axe is also a regular poster.) Some recent Danger Room highlights: –Posts here and here on the U.S. military’s Active Denial System (which was the subject of a Feb. 13 WPR article). –Israel’s expanding unmanned air force. –Iran’s “space missile.”
