Posts tagged with “politics”
At least they are both in, um, those mountains over there...
“This morning on ABC’s This Week, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley repeatedly confused Tibet and Nepal while discussing President Bush’s decision to attend the Olympics. At least 8 different times, Hadley said “Nepal” when talking about the human rights abuses that have taken place in Tibet.”
April 14th, 2008 / Tags: america, politics, cluelessness / TrackbackForeign Policy: The First Law of Petropolitics
“Iran’s president denies the Holocaust, Hugo Chávez tells Western leaders to go to hell, and Vladimir Putin is cracking the whip. Why? They know that the price of oil and the pace of freedom always move in opposite directions. It’s the First Law of Petropolitics, and it may be the axiom to explain our age.”
April 11th, 2008 / Tags: politics / TrackbackLawrence Lessig on Obama
Lawrence Lessig on Obama: 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack — I realize that just about everybody else is linking to this, but Lessig makes such a civilized, coherent argument that I would like to point the 2 or maybe 3 readers of this blog to it, too (if they have not, as one would suspect, already been there.)
February 8th, 2008 / Tags: america, politics / TrackbackDuck! Bush Jokes About Cheney’s Bad Aim
Duck! Bush Jokes About Cheney’s Bad Aim: ‘While hosting the 2007 Stanley Cup winners at the White House, the President asked the Anaheim Duck hockey champs, “Like, have you noticed a lot of security around here? It’s because the Vice President heard there were some Ducks around.”’ Such a funny guy, too.
February 7th, 2008 / Tags: america, politics, funny, cluelessness / TrackbackCulture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy
Culture is no excuse for China denying its people democracy — and not only China. Ian Buruma makes a stand for, eh, a modest amount of unalienable rights. (via norm.)
February 4th, 2008 / Tags: china, politics / TrackbackMigration Information Source
Migration Information Source: “ The Migration Information Source provides fresh thought, authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends. A unique, online resource, the Source offers useful tools, vital data, and essential facts on the movement of people worldwide.”
February 4th, 2008 / Tags: politics / TrackbackEurope Takes Africa’s Fish, and Migrants Follow
Europe Takes Africa’s Fish, and Migrants Follow: “Ale Nodye, the son and grandson of fishermen in this northern Senegalese village, said that for the past six years he netted barely enough fish to buy fuel for his boat. So he jumped at the chance for a new beginning. He volunteered to captain a wooden canoe full of 87 Africans to the Canary Islands in the hopes of making their way illegally to Europe.” Oy vey: the bittersweet fruits of globalization…
January 14th, 2008 / Tags: politics / TrackbackIslam and the Left. Dialogue or cold war?
Islam and the Left. Dialogue or cold war?: “What stance should the left adopt with regard to Islam and a multicultural society? Dialogue or cold war? In an article published in the magazine Reset, Nadia Urbinati of Columbia University initiated a long discussion with the Princeton philosopher Michael Walzer, editor of Dissent.” Much food for thought.
January 7th, 2008 / Tags: politics, islam / TrackbackAndre Gorz, RIP
Andre Gorz, RIP – who once wrote: “Work for economic ends has not always been the dominant activity of mankind. It has only been dominant across the whole of society since the advent of industrial capitalism, about two hundred years ago. Before capitalism, people in pre-modern societies, in the Middle Ages and the Ancient World, worked far less than they do nowadays, as they do in the precapitalist societies that still exist today. In fact, the difference was such that the first industrialists, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, had great difficulty getting their workforce to do a full day’s work, week in week out.” (here)
September 26th, 2007 / Tags: politics, rip / TrackbackSome Reading
Some reading: Point-Of-Departure. Perhaps most of the texts are also elsewhere to be found, but here, conveniently, in one place. (via the WSM mailing list…)
August 28th, 2007 / Tags: politics, mags / TrackbackThe words “People’s Party…”
Banning minarets: the Swiss solution to radical Islam: “Switzerland has just two small minarets. But two are more than enough for some members of the country’s right-wing Swiss People’s Party.” Somehow, the combination of the words “people” and “party” make me reach for my barf bag. In Switzerland, as well as here in Denmark. Not my people, thank you very much; or, rather: how dare you expropriate that fine word, you scumbags?
May 31st, 2007 / Tags: politics, islam / TrackbackHere’s the chocolate factory, but where has Willy Wonka gone?
Here’s the chocolate factory, but where has Willy Wonka gone? … “For some, the movement is proof of a viable alternative to neo-liberal capitalism. For critics it is an attempt to rewrite economic principles. For the workers it is a way to put food on the table.” (via Max.)
May 22nd, 2007 / Tags: politics, life after capitalism / TrackbackChurchill - as he should be remembered
Churchill – as he should be remembered: a great little post over at “Socialism Or Your Money Back.”
May 16th, 2007 / Tags: politics, winnie / TrackbackOnly Muslims Commit Terrorism
Only Muslims Commit Terrorism: “If you define terrorism as an act committed by Muslims, then only Muslims can commit terrorism, right? Thus, when a bomb is planted outside an abortion clinic by the Fetus People, it’s not terrorism. It’s free speech. Perfectly logical.”
May 1st, 2007 / Tags: politics, islam / TrackbackOnce again: please stop with the“Islamic Reformation”nonsense
Once again: please stop with the “Islamic Reformation” nonsense: “The “Protestant Reformation” is not a synonym for “The Enlightenment.”“
May 1st, 2007 / Tags: politics, islam / TrackbackBarclays’ millions help to prop up Mugabe regime
Barclays’ millions help to prop up Mugabe regime: “Three British firms provide key finance, allowing the Zimbabwe leader to defy world condemnation…” Strange, that. I had gathered from a ton of blogs that Mugabe is mainly propped up by defaitist, self-hating Western liberals?
January 29th, 2007 / Tags: politics, capitalism / TrackbackDanes’ Anti-Immigrant Backlash Marks Radical Shift
Danes’ Anti-Immigrant Backlash Marks Radical Shift: Sort-of a nice overview. It does manage to show the peculiarly unsavory habit of using perfectly legitimate concerns about Islamism for a broader attack on all immigrants. And, btw: the cute Jespersen/Pittelkow couple were only so “die-hard Social Democrats,” it appeared.
January 25th, 2007 / Tags: politics, islam / Trackback