There is in the American psyche, the Hollywood psyche, the false notion that any other major power will be just like America. The view can be terrible but wrong. Dostoevsky (if I may be excused for mentioning a Russian) wrote of how people only see a mirror when they converse. Sir Harold Nicholson, spouse of Continue reading »
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Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan’s rule faces a gauntlet of lobbyists led by the Chamber of Commerce.
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The new Republican majority delivered few surprises and lots of paranoid rhetoric on Capitol Hill Wednesday.
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Opposition leader the Dark Lord Peter Dutton has come out swinging over accusations that he is racist. The Dark Lord told reporters that he can’t be racist, as some of the people that he used to arrest were indigenous. ”Peter’s... Read More ›
A closer look at an old Eurozone banking crisis shows how Cyprus was (at least to a degree) used to get at Russia.
by Gary Gardner
Official Washington is all aflutter over whether Congress should raise the ceiling on U.S. government debt. But this is not the most pressing debt question our country faces.
To see why, step back and enlarge the frame. A new question emerges: Why would Congress create an artificial and wholly unnecessary debt crisis while ignoring a far more dangerous and decidedly real debt trap? I speak of our ballooning ecological debt,
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Anthony Albanese’s electoral success and the quiet competence of Labor’s administration has not gone unnoticed by the commentariat and political analysts here in the UK. A sea change from the noisy and brash Morrison days. UK Labour Party leader, Keir Starmer, is playing much the same game as Albanese did in the lead up to Continue reading »
The unravelling military situation in Ukraine means that Biden’s best option is to negotiate, a new RAND report argues. The sooner the better. There is the awful danger that continued procrastination will propel the hapless Biden administration into precipitating nuclear war. The issue of how to approach negotiations to end America’s proxy war against Russia Continue reading »
While I was on holiday, I noticed a tweet that left me in no doubt about the subject of my first column back. It said: “I genuinely think the next generation will not forgive us for what we have done to them and the world they will have to live in.” I, too, fear they Continue reading »
In anticipation of the Defence Strategic Review (DSR) it would be advisable to stock up on a numbing agent. While the words used might seem familiar to those whose tongue is English, a close reading of the text will reveal that it is written in late-contemporary American – a form of communication as different from Continue reading »