“Plebs, Morons …” a Cabinet Minister said
By Jeremy Sare, England.
When your job entails travelling all around Westminster or DC for that matter, then as a matter of necessity, you soon work out how to best handle the police and the security guards at every entrance and gate.
The [...]
On Veracity: Simple Rhetoric versus Complex Causality
By Mike Sutton.
An article published in the Independent newspaper contains a conveniently plausible and compelling rhetorical explanation for the newly discovered high level British police cover up of the inadequate safety, policing [...]
Revolutions, a Film and Obama: A Look at the recent anti-US Protest in the Middle East
By Louis Fishman.
Recently, news from the Middle East does not look good. Last week, anti-American riots broke out in Egypt as the result of an obscure cheaply produced amateur film degrading Muhammad, the Muslim prophet. Parallel to [...]
Evolving Neofeudal Order: Illustration
Majia Nadesan.
Example of the Evolving Neofeudal Order: Rent Backed Mortgage Securities
Charles Hugh Smith of Two Minds Writes “Financialization and Crony Capitalism Have Gutted the Middle Class” (July 13, 2012) http://www.oftwominds.com/blogjuly12/neofeudal-middle-class7-12.html
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Muslims that we Like
1. There are Muslims, who watch parts of a film to see how their prophet is insulted. Later, they punish people who had nothing to do with the movie. The radical Muslims are probably the only reason that more than 2.5 million people [...]
A Timeline of Pro-Gun Conspiracy Theories in the United States
By Baldr Odinson.
Hey, did you hear it? The government’s out to get your guns! The mass shooting last month was “staged” by the government! The President is intentionally trying to kill Mexicans to justify an attack on the [...]
The View from Over There: Margins of Error
By Jeremy Sare, England.
“Opinion polls don’t tell the whole story … the only poll that counts is on election day …. these polls certainly don’t reflect what the people have been saying to me up and down the land.”
These are all [...]
The rise of regional nationalism – The menace of Catalonia’s independence movement
By Oliver Krumme.
While Greece might break-up form the Euro-Zone, there is another break-up candidate in the news – although not in monetary terms. Yesterday, around 1.5 million people were participating at a Catalan independence rally in [...]
Opening the bottomless pit – Europe overruled by the ECB?
By Oliver Krumme
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The post of the European Central Bank president (ECB) is not the most desirable at the moment. But still, Marion Draghi has to make some decisions that might decide about the future of the Euro-Zone and of the EU as a whole. [...]
America’s Poverty-Education Link
By Howard Friedman.
Poverty and education are inextricably linked where education is a primary means of social mobility, enabling those born into poverty to rise in society. Powerful evidence of the link include the fact that 46 percent of [...]
The need for nuclear sharing, or how Germany learnt to live with the bomb
By Oliver Kr
It is no secret that Germany actually has nuclear weapons, although it does not own them. There are in fact around 20 U.S. nuclear warheads permanently stationed at the German air force base in Büchel (in the middle of the [...]
Ohio State University and Racism
By Jaime Ortega.
Living in Columbus Ohio has helped me understand suspicions I had before of a general problem with racial intolerance.
I remember the nights back in 2005 during buckeye football season when I was speaking Spanish on the phone, [...]
Consenting Adults
By Jeremy Sare
Any day, another Royal story.
Britain’s view of the Royal family is mainly that they are a very popular anachronism of the past: good business for the tabloids and the tourism industry. The regular Jubilees, and less regular [...]
Yes, we can? Not really – A review on foreign policy under the Obama Administration
By Oliver Krumme.
With Mitt Romney officially nominated as Republican Presidential candidate for the U.S. Presidential elections in November 2012, the election campaign has now officially begun. While Romney addressed the concept of strong leadership [...]
Girls Suffering from Trafficking in Ethiopia
By Betre Yacob.
These are what traffickers and their local agents, brokers, often told rural girls in Ethiopia, who are in a critical social-economical problem: “You will get a good job in Sudan; you will be attractive paid and you will enjoy [...]
A Look at the ‘Funniest’ Feature of Political parties in Ethiopia
By Betre Yacob.
I think no one can run from the naked fact that there is economic disparity between the ruling political parties and their opponents in Ethiopia. The following two pictures clearly show this actual feature of the parties: the [...]
Britain should stay in the European Union
By Sanchia Alasia.
I attended a debate at the London School of Economics last month, which had a panel debating whether Britain should stay within the EU. The panel members consisted of Sir Stephen Wall, George Eustice MP, Roger Helmer MEP, [...]
Battle Royal
By Jeremy Sare.
First, MPs and peers found their personal standings plummet as the expenses scandal revealed a great many had been bending, and in some cases serially breaking, the rules on their allowances. Huge settlement checks were written, [...]
The Ghosts we are calling, again – How the world drops into a new depression
By Oliver Krumme.
“Depression” – It is a word that seemed to be forgotten over the past decades, but it is coming back now. While everyone in the free market economy was certain that such an economic disaster that happened in the late [...]
Gotta Serve Somebody
By Jeremy Sare.
The first ever scene of the BBC’s political comedy, ‘Yes, Minister’ shows a new Secretary of State arriving at his Department and amazed to find his work diary for the coming months already full.
“But you didn’t know [...]