Posts tagged with 'power'

TPMtv: A Chat with Dahlia Lithwick

POSTED BY BEN CRAW, AUGUST 06 2008 12:50 PM | PERMALINK

A Chat with Dahlia Lithwick

Your Daily Politics Video Blog: At Netroots Nation down in Austin two weeks ago, TPMtv caught up with Slate's Dahlia Lithwick and picked her brain about just what post-Bush accountability means. Is it really all or nothing? Sweep it under the rug versus Nuremberg trials, or are there a lot more grey areas in just how we pick up the pieces. That, and what might be in store for the Supreme Court under a President McCain.
Lights Out in Gaza

POSTED BY RALEIGH-ELIZABETH SMITH, JANUARY 21 2008 03:20 PM | PERMALINK

From the NYT:

JERUSALEM — Israel’s closing of its border crossings with Gaza remained in effect Sunday, and Gaza’s only electricity plant shut down because of a shortage of imported fuel needed to run it.

Israel’s defense minister, Ehud Barak, ordered a temporary halt on all imports into the Hamas-run Gaza Strip late last week. The measure, along with stepped-up military operations in Gaza, was meant to persuade Palestinian militants there to stop firing rockets at Israel.

A spokeswoman for...