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Surely a few more wars will get us out of the debt crisis. We had a wide-ranging discussion last night, and with greatly enhanced audio as I hosted it via Skype rather than phone. Topics included: Assad is attempting to do to Hama precisely what his father did a few decades ago; demolish it [...] Topics included: Who will succeed Strauss-Kahn? The old boys network says the World Bank and IMF should be run by an American and European. But this may be changing, as Africa and Asia want to lead too. Strauss-Kahn was undoubtedly one of the most powerful people in the world. Our current political and financial [...] After weeks of internal debate on how to respond to uprisings in the Arab world, the Obama administration is settling on a Middle East strategy: help keep longtime allies who are willing to reform in power, even if that means the full democratic demands of their newly emboldened citizens might have to wait. Starting with [...] Image via Socialist Unity Sometimes the tiger may act unexpectedly, savagely, or even turn on those who thought they controlled it. Niall Ferguson, who apparently gets all misty-eyed at the thought of American Empire Unchallenged, says all these revolts and revolutions in MENA may end badly and violently. Well, of course they might. [...] The Middle East protesters are heroic and inspiring. They are literally putting their lives on the line. I helped organize multiple anti-Iraq war protests. Sometimes they were huge. Sometimes it got really tense with LAPD. But I knew the authorities would not open fire on us with assault rifles and that we wouldn’t be picked [...] Middle East protests may topple more governments but the underlying problems of poverty, rising prices, and income disparities will remain. Will the outcome for many of these countries be something like Pakistan is now? And who is Raymond Davis, supposed diplomat who killed two Pakistanis with highly accurate shots and is now jailed there? [...] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xT-Ljepz0 Zero Hedge has many links and videos. Lenin’s Tomb Those middle class activists who think that Egyptians will now return to work to labour under a military regime – Wael Ghonim, the Google employee incessantly puffed by the Anglophone media as the ‘leader’ of this revolution, ‘trusts’ the army and urges people to go back to work – are about [...] |  | ||||
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