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Last year, I wrote an article, here, entitled For some, doing business in China means leaving your conscience at the border, in which I lamented the trend of multinational corporations ignoring all regard for universal human rights just to get a piece of the Chinese economic pie. In fact, here’s how I began that article:… Read more.
For years, I’ve warned about the Putinization of Russia — a calculated campaign by Vladimir Putin to dismantle the democratic reforms championed by his predecessors. If you’ve been paying attention, you’ll recognize this as the work of a neo-Stalinist president bent on reversing the strides made by Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. Gorbachev, in a… Read more.
BREAKING NEWS: Transcripts prove that George W. Bush is smarter than John F. Kerry! This is the title of a commentary, here, dated 8 June 2005, in which I lampooned the truly stunning revelation that the seemingly-dumb George Bush graduated with a better GPA from Yale University than the seemingly-smart John Kerry. But, notwithstanding his… Read more.
Dear Readers: Because I was holed-up in meetings all morning yesterday, I was unaware that the article I thought was published at 6:45am was not published, in fact, until 2:30 pm. And for this I apologise unreservedly. I’m afraid the googleaire-nerds who host my weblog have been too busy spending their money to bother fixing… Read more.
Less than 2 months ago, celebrities from the world of politics, finance and entertainment gathered in New York City to pledge financial commitments to the charitable foundation of former US President Bill Clinton – that unrepentant political rogue who has assumed the role of Mother Teresa’s male counterpart (Father Bill?) rather persuasively. The attendees were… Read more.
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I don’t know anyone who wanted St. Louis to win. Moreover, given their lousy season (with a win-loss record of 83 – 78 vs. Detroit’s 95 – 67), I don’t know anyone who thought they would win the National League Pennant, let alone the World Series. Meanwhile, Detroit seemed fated to win. In fact, even… Read more.
Alas, African leaders are so congenitally corrupt that the only way “to remove corruption and improve governance” throughout the continent is, in fact, to bribe them.This seems to be the perverse reasoning that has inspired Sudanese billionaire Mo Ibrahim (left) to award a prize to the African leader who is deemed to be the least… Read more.
The Tennessee Senate race between Democratic candidate Harold Ford Jr and Republican Bob Corker is one of the most contentious in this year’s truly competitive Congressional elections. After all, for the first time in over a decade, Democrats are within striking distance of wresting control of Congress from Republicans. And Republicans know what payback mischief… Read more.
…the United States is in bed with the government in Khartoum on counterterrorism issues and therefore we are looking the other way on a genocide[?] [Scott Pelley reporting for 60 Minutes from Darfur, Sudan] I understand implicitly the geopolitical realities that have allowed President George W. Bush’s (axis-of-evil) enemies in Iraq, Iran and North Korea… Read more.
