As fear is close companion to falsehood, so truth follows fearlessness. — Jawaharlar Nehru[...]
Posts Tagged ‘World’
October 3rd, 2013 - 10:45 pm § in Politics
Oct 3, Anniversary of reunification of Germany
Reunification of Germany On the 3rd of October, 1990 German re-unification became official. The date was designated as a national holiday by Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In 1989, a re-unified Germany seemed a long way off, although demonstrations were already taking…[...]
NAFTA Is NOT The End of the World!
Norm., with all due respect, your post opposing free trade is way over the top. Free trade agreements SHOULD be a liberal cause. NAFTA, by every measure I have seen, has benefited all three countries. Workers in Canada..or Mexico are people too. Protectionism benefits only those wealthy enough to [...]
Commentary by Norm: How much do you know about the Trans-Pacific Partnership?
The end of life as we know it? If you DO know about TPP, you may not be so sure that line is much exaggerated. And the TPP has a sequel brewing, the TAFTA. MoveOn is starting up a group to battle against this “NAFTA on Steroids” or “Corporate Coup”, as many are calling it[...]
UPDATE: The Fugitive: Snowden’s Movie
This Has The Makings of a Great Movie! Apparently the fugitive can not fly out of Mscow becausse all routes to some sacuary ncontry require permission to fly over US territory. That leaves him three outs: 1. Live forever in the airport! 2. Get someone to offer him a diplmatic courier plane protect[...]
America’s Future: Look to The North?
Canada, home of rational people, a salad bowl of cultures, national healthcare, and state paid education is slipping to the right on a film of oil Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the right-wing leader from Alberta and an American style evangelical Christian, is using Canada’s new found oil we[...]
June 27th, 2013 - 1:11 pm § in Misc.
Spiegel on the generation gap in Turkey
Turkish Family Split Between Gezi and Old Way The rift currently dividing Turkey also runs right through the middle of many families. SPIEGEL reporter Özlem Gezer has an uncle in Istanbul who loves Erdogan, a cousin who sleeps in the protesters’ camp and parents who sit in Germany arguing ove[...]
April 29th, 2013 - 4:58 am § in Misc.
Author of “The End of History” Says Taliban NOT a Threat
Afghan, Pakistani Taliban are ”non-expansionist bogeymen”, says political scientist Political scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote the most thoughtful book of the Reagan Era .. “The Enf of Time.” In this book, Fukayama lauded liberal democracy … capitalism plus republicanis[...]
Commentary by Norm: Is Free Trade Good For Us? Pt. 3.
Continuing the thread about free trade Auto workers in Japan and Germany have been paid more than UAW workers in this country have for more than three decades. Your suspicions are flat out wrong. The problem with the cost of building US cars is primarily, tho not exclusively, the cost of worker [...]