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Whoever wins the Presidential election in November will face criticism from Central and South American nations about the embargo and isolation of Cuba. Neither candidate will budge on this issue prior to the election, for reasons obvious to anyone who understands the electoral college. As a Republican interested in re-election, Romney will not budge after [...]
Archive for the ‘International Affairs’ Category
April 15th, 2012
Speculating on the coming succession struggle to Rupert Murdoch;s legacy, and its implications for US politics and global warming.
April 10th, 2012
Hans Kundnani is among the best guides to Germans’ collective psyche and politics. One should therefore take seriously his analysis of how German attitudes toward Israel are changing. Hans builds his analysis around the reaction to Gunter Grass’ controversial new poem criticizing Israel’s nuclear weapons programme: what makes the publication of [Grass'] poem significant is [...]
March 26th, 2012
Five suggestions for the future to the new starlet of the Russian opposition.
March 19th, 2012
Category: Israel
In a piece that seems to have created something of a firestorm, Peter Beinart calls for a boycott of Israeli goods produced in the occupied territories. I admit that Beinart’s piece enraged me — not because it is untrue, but rather because it is so derivative. People have been saying this stuff for years: what’s the [...]
March 7th, 2012
A protest at Iran warmongering.
February 3rd, 2012
Professor Balkin discusses corporations as slaves – following the RBC.
February 2nd, 2012
Youth unemployment is high in France; many people don’t get into a stable job until their mid-20s. Meanwhile, French Presidential candidate François Hollande wants to lower the retirement age to 60. The math is eye-opening. French life expectancy is about 80. Under the Hollande proposal, the typical French person will have a working life of [...]