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• Michel Barnier and City of London Regulation

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  City of London bankers are troubled by the nomination of a Frenchman, Michel Barnier, as the European Unions next internal-market commissioner. The worry: if Barnier is approved for the post, he will have little sympathy for Londons famed light-touch approach to market discipline. In the words of William Hague, the ...
  3 days ago

• The Latin Lefts Attack on the Media

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Latin America is more democratic than ever: free elections are the norm, and 57 percent of Latin Americans support democracy over authoritarian government, up from 54 percent five years ago, according to Latinobarómetro, a polling firm. Yet across the region, the media are under assault from autocrats who are ...
  6 days ago

• More On German “anti-Zionists”.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 475
  Here’s more to the post concerning those Hamburg “anti-Zionists”, who felt comfortable shouting “Jewish pigs” at those attending a film presentation.Die Linke were quick to disassociate themselves from the racist “anti-Zionists”, but the evidence of their unfortunate link to this group is shown by a bit ...
  1 week ago

• Israels Troublesome Prisoner Swap

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  By Kevin Peraino Even some Israelis were pleased by the rumors last week that Marwan Barghouti, the jailed Palestinian leader, could be one of roughly 1,000 prisoners freed in exchange for 23-year-old Israeli Sgt. Gilad Shalit. Doves have long argued that the popular Barghouti, who supports a two-state solution, ...
  1 week ago

• Not Sure.

  
  ModernityBlog — Authority: 475
  I am not sure what to make of this, I read it earlier on in the week at Jpost, but I didn’t pay it much attention until re-reading again at schalom libertad, Anti-Zionist Attack on Film Showing.Contested Terrain has a lot more:“At the end of October, a coalition around the “Internationalist Center B5″ ...
  1 week ago

• Powderfinger’s Secret Playlist

  
  Lost At E Minor: For creative people — Authority: 616
  Australian band Powderfinger have a new album out, Golden Rule, which was again recorded with Nick DiDia, responsible for their successful albums Internationalist, Odyssey Number Five, and Vulture Street albums. We checked in with them to get the inside word on the songs that inspired their new recording, and they ...
  1 week ago

• Ungenerous Japan

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  By Takashi Yokota Japan, the globes second-largest economy, has long prided itself on its reputation as one of the worlds most generous ­nations. But the Center for Global Development (CGD) thinks the country is punching below its weight. A recent report by the reputable Washington think tank ranked ­Japan the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wall Streets Ego Bubble

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Last week, we got more proof of Wall Streets utter disconnect from the rest of the world when Goldman Sachss chief executive Lloyd Blankfein was quoted as saying hes doing "Gods work." Apparently, hes also a "blue-collar guy" and "everybody should be happy" that he and his peers are on track to take home billions in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chinas Yuan May Strengthen Against the Dollar

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Investors last week were buzzing about a report released by the Chinese central bank ahead of President Obamas visit to the country, which indicated that Beijing might once again be thinking of letting the yuan rise to reflect Chinas growing heft in the global economy. The report surprisingly omitted the usual ...
  2 weeks ago

• Terrorism and the Framework of War

  
  Journeys in Alterity — Authority: 417
  Matthew Yglesias argument against responding to international terrorism in the manners and metaphors of war makes sense to me. He writes that in approaching terrorism within the framework of war, "you partake of way too much of the terrorists’ narrative about themselves." He continues: It’s their conceit, after ...
  2 weeks ago

• Chavezs War Mongering Is Cover for Domestic Woes

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Colombia and Venezuela appear to be on a collision course. Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez recently ordered troops to the Colombian border, where violent clashes involving police, narcoguerrillas, and army troops have flared. But dont buy the saber rattling. Chávezs popularity is plummeting, and this is little more ...
  3 weeks ago

• Binyavanga Wainaina: Against “African Literature”

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  While “undoubtedly a key leader” of Africa’s literary renaissance, writes the marvellously-named Siena Sofia Magdalena Anstis in Uganda’s The Independent , Kenya’s Binyavanga Wainaina “repeatedly denies its existence”. Apparently Wainaina would prefer that the word “African”, in the phrase ...
  3 weeks ago

• Africa Turns Away the Troops

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Many experts worry that Africa could soon become the worlds jihadist base of choice; its combination of failed states, poverty, and pockets of religious extremism offer the perfect breeding ground for terrorists. Thats a big reason why in 2007 the Pentagon created AfriCom, a new command responsible for organizing U.S. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brazil Loses Face in Honduras Political Fiasco

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Its not clear who will be running Honduras from now on, but the clear loser in the nations protracted political crisis is Brazil. Ever since the June ouster of Honduran President Manuel Zelaya, Brazil has been working to restore him to power. Brazils President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva denounced the "coup makers" at ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama Renews Focus on Southeast Asia

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Barack Obama will signal yet another break with his predecessors foreign policy this week when he takes his first presidential trip to Asia. While the Bush administration focused almost exclusively on the big players like China and India, Obama is very deliberately focusing on smaller countries as well. In addition to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Russias Auto Wreck

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Two years ago, Russia was one of the ­fastest-­growing auto markets in the world--but few Western carmakers were willing to risk a partnership there. Then, in 2007, Renault purchased a 25 percent stake in AvtoVaz, whose Lada brand was famous for the wrong reasons: its plants were fitted with ­Soviet-era production ...
  4 weeks ago

• Karzais Runoff Concession Damages His Credibility

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  By Sami Yousafzai and Ron Moreau Hamid Karzai probably would have won Afghanistans Aug. 20 presidential election even without the widespread fraud that led a U.N.-backed electoral watchdog to throw out a third of his votes. And he will almost certainly win the runoff scheduled for Nov. 7. But Western efforts to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Italy Scores Poorly On World Gender Gap Report

  
  Wealth of Nations — Authority: 495
  Thanks to the antics of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi--his excursions with escorts, his insistence that beauty queens be included in his Parliament, his description of his country as a land of "beautiful secretaries"--Italys getting slammed often these days for its culture of chauvinism. Now, the World Economic ...
  4 weeks ago

• President Blair: The Great Escape

  
  Madam Miaow says ... — Authority: 483
  Which movie are we in? The final act of The Omen ? Or maybe Goodfellas ? After heroically stalling the advance of Tony Blair by rejecting the Lisbon Treaty, which would (among other horrors) create the role of President of the United States of Europe, the Irish were told to vote again until the required result was ...
  5 weeks ago

• Report from the Caine Prize Anniversary Tour

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 507
  Susannah Tarbush reports from the opening event of the recent Caine Prize 10th anniversary tour in the UK, which saw Ben Okri address African literature enthusiasts at the British Library, alongside Brian Chikwava, Chika Unigwe and Binyavanga Wainaina: Okri described the Caine Prize as being “the result of a ...
  5 weeks ago

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