Blog Entries by James Ross
The US, the UN and My Friend Leah
It was a typically steamy day in the Mekong Delta in 1994 when I first met Leah Melnick. Thousands of ethnic Vietnamese fleeing violence in Cambodia had been stuck for months in horrendous conditions on small fishing boats on the Cambodia-Vietnam frontier. Leah, a diminutive, 20-something UN official was giving...
Psychological Torture and the Bush Administration
Posted August 22, 2007 | 03:47 PM (EST)
(New York, August 22, 2007) -- The crystal blue waters and bright, hot day begged for a jump in the surf. But my friend, a refugee from Ethiopia, just wouldn't go near the ocean. "I haven't gone swimming for years," he said, shaking his head sadly, "Ever since the...
In a candid interview via satellite from China, Olympic...
Update: Keith Olbermann had Rachel Maddow on "Countdown" Tuesday night to celebrate...
UPDATE: A day after Roseanne's blogs from below...
"How honest are we if we tell the truth most of the time &...
Obama's been to Hawaii. We're moving...
I've read the comments. I know what some of you think. Yawn. It's not a story. He's not...
LOS ANGELES — Barack Obama is getting praise from Nashville, courtesy of one...
The New York Times' Kit Seelye is backing up NBC's Andrea Mitchell, who reported on...
NEW YORK — The suspense didn't quite compare to the identity of "Deep Throat,"...
Turning conventional neuroscience on its head, new research suggests the...
USA Today reports that inventors, despite the clashing designs of airplanes...
Last year I praised Rebecca Taylor and...
NAPLES, Fla. — Tropical Storm Fay rolled ashore in southwestern Florida on Tuesday without...
Posted September 19, 2007 | 04:41 PM (EST)