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Last year I joined the chorus of political commentators all over the world in hailing the coalition government between President Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party and Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party as the best hope for democracy in Zimbabwe. And we did so knowing full well that this coalition… Read more.
When Vladimir Putin plucked Dmitry Medvedev from obscurity in 2007 to succeed him as president of Russia, the consensus opinion was that Medvedev would be nothing more than a lap dog doing Putin’s bidding until Putin could resume his role as president in 2012. (The Russian Constitution provides that no president can serve more than… Read more.
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What a bloody mess! In a self-fulfilling prophecy yesterday, voters gave Britain the hung parliament that was so devoutly to be wished. For preliminary General Election results indicate that none of the three main parties will end up with the outright majority of 326 seats needed to govern alone. Instead, according to BBC projections, the… Read more.
Long before predatory trading in shady financial instruments – with no intrinsic value – caused Lehman Brothers to fail, the fall of Enron symbolized the fateful fallacy of building profits based on manipulations of corporate balance sheets. In fact, Enron’s trading in such exotic “commodities” as broadcast time for advertisers, weather futures and Internet bandwidth… Read more.
Given the media coverage, one can be forgiven the impression that the wannabe terrorists who tried to blow up Times Square on Saturday actually killed scores, if not hundreds, of people. Whereas, in fact, not a soul was lost: thank God! (Or should that be Allah…?) After all, it had to have been divine intervention… Read more.
One of the inescapable citations on the epitaph of the presidency of George W. Bush will be his failure to fly down to Louisiana to show hands-on concern in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Therefore, clearly mindful of this, President Obama is doing everything he can to avoid a similar citation for his handling of… Read more.
Given the title, you might think this commentary is about the fact that – after playing the mother of an adopted black boy in the movie The Blind Side – actress Sandra Bullock revealed this week that she has adopted a black baby in real life. It is not. Yet I shall take this opportunity… Read more.
Greece may be the cradle of civilization but it’s being regarded throughout Northern Europe these days as little more than a beggars’ colony. This is because Greece is now looking to richer member states of the European Union, like Germany and France, to bail it out of an existential financial mess. No doubt many… Read more.
