techniques of the counter-revolution
It looks like the Empire is striking back on multiple fronts. So far as I can see, these seem to have been the lessons learned by regional authoritarians from Egypt. Never mind the martyrs. Given that...
View ArticleAnd it’s one jet airliner, for ten prisoners…
One thing that is perhaps being overlooked by people discussing whether or not it would be wise to impose a no-fly zone over Libya is exactly what such a zone would set out to prevent. When it was...
View ArticlePanning back to Egypt…
A couple of weeks ago, the big question had ceased to be “Will there be a revolution in Egypt?” and had become “Will it matter?” The revolutionaries had demonstrated that they could endure, could...
View ArticlePre-dropped
Kevin Drum makes the mistake of reading McArdle and writes “I have to admit that ‘gigantic earthquake in Japan’ was not on my list of possible flash points for the global economy. And in the end, I...
View ArticleI Don’t Care if I Never Get Back
Once upon a time, before it became the Paris printing of the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune published its late sports editor Dick Roraback’s ode to baseball’s opening day each...
View ArticleAn unholy alliance
Sonia Le Gouriellec at Alliance Géostrategique quotes Bernard Badie on the Ivory Coast and the fact that democracy is a lot more than just elections. Prenons-la [la démocratie] comme un idéal,...
View ArticleCollapsing Case Against Strauss-Kahn?
The New York Times talks to its sources in the NY Police Department and prosecutor’s office and reports: The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is on the verge of collapse as...
View Articlelife in a low trust society
I missed this when it came out a week ago. Have yourselves a cheerful read: On the morning of Sept. 4, in the riverside boomtown of Wuhan, Mr. Li, an 88-year-old man, fell in the street and injured his...
View ArticleThe Extraordinary Aside
Bond contracts and diplomatic notes aren’t the only places where the casual asides can be more rewarding than the main text. NASA announced yesterday that its Kepler space telescope has helped...
View ArticleEurovision 2012
If the Russian grandmothers don’t win it, something’s wrong. That is all. Update: Wall St. Journal is liveblogging. Sign of the end times? Also #eurovision on Twitter is home of the best commentary.
View Articlefar from original heading
In the wake of the mysterious disappearance of Ballardian Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 to the East or possibly the West of the Malaysian peninsula, here's an interesting account of all the ways...
View ArticleBuy Me Some Peanuts and Cracker Jacks
Once upon a time, there was a lovely newspaper known as the International Herald Tribune. Each year on baseball’s opening day, the paper would publish its late sports editor Dick Roraback’s poem...
View ArticleIMF: Eastern Mediterranean country with unfair debt service requirement
From new IMF report on a certain country – The case for fiscal adjustment is also grounded in fairness. Without it and with ever more debt, interest payments will soar to some 12 percent of GDP, or...
View ArticleWell then.
Looking back at posts from January 2009, I see a mix of hope and serious concern. Country after country was following the US into what has since become known as the Great Recession. It is reckoned by...
View ArticleMeeting the New Year
The Project for a Post-American Century meets an international system with Chinese characteristics. There’s something in this Evan Osnos article in The New Yorker for nearly everyone: [Trump] announced...
View ArticleBad neighbourhoods
From US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “The West is Winning” speech at the Munich Security Conference — The West is winning. We are collectively winning. We’re doing it together. Let’s start with a...
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