Trying the Khmer Rouge
In between lounging in the backyard and assaulting Robert Fisk’s brick-like The Great War For Civilisation, I’ve been immersing myself in readings about the Khmer Rouge Tribunal — scheduled, after nearly two decades of diplomatic evasion and acrimonious negotiations, to begin operation sometime in 2008. But after again reading about the tribunal’s tortuous gestation, I’m...
Tom Cruise: The 'Goebbels of Scientology'?
Poor Tom Cruise — all he wants to do is make movies. Yet his latest film has many Germans in a frenzy, with some now branding him as the Scientologist equivalent of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. Valkyrie, due for release in October, tells the story of the ill-fated July 1944 plot to assassinate Adolf...
