Why Is The Economist Interested in Seattle’s mayor race or the 522 initiative? Last week’s Economist had TWO articles on Seattle on about our mayoral election and one about the 522 referendum to require GMO labelling of all food. The articles are both worth reading if only becaus[...]
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Election 2012: China’s Choice: Romney
Which U.S. presidential candidate would be better for U.S.-China relations? Tuesday’s debate outed the real Mitt Romney … a modern incorporation of the Vanderbilts and the Rockefellers. These men built the corporations that dominate today’s world and are now rivaled only by the s[...]
What is a “New Democrat?” Is Darcy Burner a “New Democrat?”
The term “new Democrats” is fraught with partisanship. At the presidential level, the term was first used to describe Bill Clinton and now refers to the so called moderate Democrats who support President Obama. The new Democrats stand out in contrast to doctrinaire progressive D[...]
There is a name for that system of government: National Socialism.
From Krugman’s essay today: Austria Freedom Party, (leader used to have neo-Nazi connections) runs neck-and-neck in the polls with established parties, Finland, True Finns Party ( anti-immigrant)strong electoral showing last April. Hungary, Jobbik, ( anti immigrant, anti Roma, anti-Semit[...]
August 31st, 2011 - 8:59 am § in America
U.S. Government Sues to Block AT&T T-Mobile Merger Lenin made a powerful argument against capitalism. The Russian predicted that corporate self interest would dictate a concewntration of the media … not justn intgo one monoploy but nto an oligopoly of shared interests that would snake de[...]
China: Ai Weiwei tells his tale of two cities, both are Beijing
I am frustrated by the lack of attention by academe to the plight of Ai Weiwei. His courage is shown here by his decision to defy China’s corporate oligarchs by writing while under house arrest. While Ai’s courage is amazing, we should not just blame his fate on China. To a lesser de[...]
GMO Discovery Awarded World Food Prize
While Voters Here Must Decide on Initiative 522 to Require Labeling Any Genetically Engineered Food, three Monsanto scientists, Marc Van Montagu, Rob Fraley, and Mary Dell Chilton received this year’s prestigious Norman Borlaug Lecture and World Food Prize, Thursday, Oct. 17 in Iowa. They r[...]