Warren I. Cohen on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines http://www.truthdig.com/warren_i_cohen Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-07-17T08:00:00+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif Truthdig logo Warren I. Cohen on Obama’s Foreign Policy Challenges http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090716_warren_i_cohen_on_obamas_foreign_policy_challenges/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20090716_warren_i_cohen_on_obamas_foreign_policy_challenges/ book, cohen, david e. sanger, foreign policy, inheritance, obama, review, sanger, the inheritance, warren i. cohen, Book Review

The daunting problems Bush’s successor has inherited may prove all but insurmountable as he makes his way through a thicket of difficulties—the nuclear ambitions of authoritarian regimes, the quagmire of Mesopotamia and the persistent bloodletting in Pakistan and Afghanistan, to name only the most prominent. A recent book by David E. Sanger, a longtime foreign affairs correspondent for The New York Times, offers a close-up look at the world Obama confronts.

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There’s a revolution underway in Chinese culture as young women flock from villages to factory employment in the cities, leaving traditional values behind.

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The Beijing Olympics are proof that the rule of China’s Communist Party has been validated. Yet human rights abuses continue. What’s really going on? What kind of country is China becoming? Two new books help provide answers.

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]]> 2008-08-15T09:24:00+00:00 Warren Cohen on the Rise (and Fall) of the Neocons http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080306_warren_cohen_on_the_rise_and_fall_of_the_neocons/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20080306_warren_cohen_on_the_rise_and_fall_of_the_neocons/ book, clinton, cohen, conservatives, heilbrunn, iraq, media, military, neocons, politics, reagan, republicans, review, rumsfeld, torture, vietnam, war, Book Review book cover

Just who are the “neocons,” where did they come from and how was it they came to wield so profound an influence among the highest circles of America’s policy elites? These are some of the questions asked by Jacob Heilbrunn in his new book, “They Knew They Were Right.”

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