Unpacking the sub-prime train wreck
On this analysis two major factors in the train wreck were the regulations that pushed lenders to water down prudent criteria for lending and the...
Bombs or Bananas?
It seemed like a reasonable enough idea. Responding to fears of a terrorist attack by 'dirty bomb' or nuclear weapon, US Customs and Border Protection...
Pearson . . . . again.
Hopefully Troppodillians will forgive me for tackling another Pearson piece only two weeks after my last effort. I'll try not to make a habit of...
Et tu, Noel?
A sense of gloom settled in as I ploughed through The Weekend Australian yesterday. It felt like February 2003 again, only worse. Then, an optimist...
Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’
This brief article by Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Washington Post provides a useful contrast to Albrechtsen's opinion piece. Here are the opening few lines to...
Why Not Let Them Hate Us, as long as They Fear Us?
Much as I hesitate to introduce yet another post with a plug for LNL, the interview with Chas Freeman last night obliges me to take...
In praise of progress generally, and blogging specifically
Last week, Eygptian blogger Wael Abbas (NB he writes in Arabic!) was credited by French newspaper Le Figaro with striking a major blow against oppression,...