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He spoke too soon
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 27 November 2013 I have seen the future; and it works. Observation by American journalist Lincoln … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Russia
Tagged Communism, futurology, Lincoln Steffens, Marie Howe, Soviet Union
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War without end
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 November 2013 Contrary to the propaganda disseminated for years by deferential western media, the United … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, China, India, Iran, Military, Pakistan, Russia, USA
Tagged 9/11, Belquis Roshan, Hamid Karzai, jaw-jaw, loya jirga, Operation Enduring Freedom, Taliban, What's new pussycat?, White House, Winston Churchill, World Trade Center
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Democracy? No thanks!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 25 November 2013 Enough is enough, the Greek government has finally told the triad (European Commission, … Continue reading
Posted in Europe, Germany, Greece, USA
Tagged Antonis Samaras, austerity, democracy, democratic deficit, ECB, EU, Greece, IMF, Syriza
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Mutual Assured Destruction
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 November 2013 So the Romans have cut a deal with the Persians. Teheran will limit … Continue reading
Books do furnish a room
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 23 November 2013 The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than … Continue reading
Breaking through the glass ceiling
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 November 2013 Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be … Continue reading
Posted in Canada, Politics
Tagged "Canada Month", Canada, Charlotte Whitton, feminism, glass ceiling, Ottawa
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Hatred and politics
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 21 November 2013 Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Politics, USA
Tagged "The Education of Henry Adams", Henry Brooks Adams
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Prison for profiteers as prices plummet
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 November 2013 Exemplary news from Bolivarian socialist Venezuela. The government has just jailed 100 businessmen … Continue reading
Posted in USA, Venezuela
Tagged bolivar, Hugo Chávez, kulak, Lenin, Nicolás Maduro, oil prices, profiteering, Romanov, Venezuela
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Off message
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 19 November 2013 If there is a message, I want to be off it. Characteristically dissident … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Alastair Campbell, Daily Telegraph, Jeremy Paxman, Labour Government 1997-2007, spin doctor, Tony Blair
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Art and Aid
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 18 November 2013 The art market has shot off the radar. Stratospheric prices are being paid … Continue reading
Posted in Art, China, Japan, Politics, UN, USA
Tagged Andy Warhol, Art Newspaper, Balloon Dog, Christie's, Cy Twombly, Francis Bacon, Haiyan, Jeff Koons, Lucio Fonatana, Melanie Gervis, Philippines, Sotheby's, Willem de Kooning
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