
On Libya and the Arab Spring: Human Rights, Democracy and National Interest *
Mark Danner speaking at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, with Brian
Mark Danner speaking at Berkeley’s First Congregational Church, with Brian
Mark Danner interviewed by reporter Samantha Fields on PRI’s
Mark Danner debates former Bush Administration speech
Originally published in The New York Review of Books, “Syria: Is There a Solution?” was reprinted in the German magazine Lettre International.
To many Americans, Iraq now seems little more than a bad dream, best left unmentioned. Still, as the debate in the United States has turned to “the Syria dilemma” next door—and, more recently, to the US’s obligation to “stand up…for the interests of all” by enforcing President Obama’s declared “red line” against the use of chemical weapons there—the shadow of Iraq falls darkly over the landscape.
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters on Background Briefing.
Untitled from Mark Danner on Vimeo.
Mark Danner speaks with Ian Masters of
The Sunday Show with Philip Maldari – March 27, 2011
When it comes to torture, it is not what we did but what we are doing. It is not what happened but what is happening and what will happen. In our politics, torture is not about whether or not our polity can “let the past be past”—whether or not we can “get beyond it and look forward