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Blog Entries by Reese Schonfeld from 05/2011

Giving Credit Where Credit Is Due: CNN

| Posted 05.12.2011 | Media
Read More: FoxNews Ratings, Tsunami, Cnn, President Obama, CNN Ratings, Cable News Ratings, Earthquake, Cable News, Foxnews, Osama Bin Laden, Media News

Last week, CNN proved once again that it is the television news source that occasional news viewers seek out when major stories break. It ranked ninth...

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The Lessons of Libya

| Posted 05.18.2011 | World
Read More: Libya Conflict, UN on Libya, Nato Libya Air Strikes, Nato Libya Conflict, Libya NATO, World News

We seem to be witnessing a major split between military leaders (Gen. Richards) and NATO political leaders. Gen. Richards wants "to tighten the vise." NATO seems to have no intention of tightening the vise, so the game goes on.

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Are The Lessons of Kosovo Spreading to Libya?

| Posted 05.27.2011 | World
Read More: Libya, Nato, Kosovo, Libya Airstrikes, Brussels, Muammar Qadaffi, Misurata, Russia, Libyan Rebels, Tripoli, Milosevic, Belgrade, Naples, Reese Schonfeld, World News

The latest reports from NATO sure do read a lot like reports on the NATO raids on Belgrade in 1999, when NATO planes hit infrastructure targets, ending the war in Kosovo and ultimately forcing Serbian President Milosevic to relinquish power.

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Libya: Obfuscation Has Begun

| Posted 05.31.2011 | World
Read More: Libya Conflict, G8, Libya, The Guardian UK, Muammar Gaddafi, Nato, Charles Bouchard, Misrata, Qatar, Al Jazeera, Dafniyah, World News

The Libyan conflict seems headed in the same direction as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan -- the truth is supplanted by lies and half-lies and we sink once again into a sea of obfuscation. We know we'll never get the real truth.

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