Who Wins? Historians often view wars as ending with winners and losers. We “won” World War II – and the Germans and Japanese lost. In most human conflicts results are less clear-cut. People don’t tend to think of the “War on Cancer” – started by President Nixon – and the “War on Terror” – begun […]
Another forgotten war – food safety, health, and terrorism (10/17/11)
The War on “Terror” How do you recognize an agricultural inspector who saves California from an infestation of citrus canker? Give him a job sorting travellers’ dirty laundry. Welcome to the wacky world of the “war on terrorism” – American division – post 9/11. What Kind of Security? Investigative journalism still lives, for now. The […]