American neoconservatives tend to get hostile when you make the point that every country has its neocons. The response typically runs something like this:How can you possibly compare me with those Russians/Chinese/Iranians? Don't you understand that I cloak my hawkish right wing nationalism behind a...
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I predict this book is going to sell a whole lot of copies this year. Unlike many ongoing crises that suffer from lack of aid money, in Haiti the relief.
As I noted in the comments to this post, it was only a matter of time before I started Mad Men; however, as I've studiously avoided reading about the show.
By way of living up to Rob's kind introduction (and answering elbruce's question in comments) I figured I'd kick off my LGM blogging career by reposting my Happy New Decade Top Twelve list - my predictions of which "human security" issues are going to become...
It's actually kind of impressive how many obvious errors of analysis Charles Lane packs into a few paragraphs here:I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack.
I love this commercial:The point, apart from some self-mockery of ESPN's Brett Farve obsession, is that the message sent isn't necessarily the message received. If there's any kind of mistaken.
Shorter Fred Hiatt: FDR was a total commie; King and his so-called "civil rights" maybe even worse. They probably didn't even understand that "human rights" should be defined exclusively in the terms that will maximize the imperialist power of the United States. Let's also completely...
and not because the Tories may win, or even that the election may result in a hung parliament.Rather, the EUCouncil of Europe is upset that the UK has been delaying.
In the process of voting, I find myself pondering "King County Charter Amendment #1: Repeal of Section 350.20.30 and Portions of Article 9 - Transitory Provisions" Here's the text in.
It's difficult to plow through the many layers of rank idiocy in the assertion that Turkey is "lost to the Islamists"; I can identify at least a few...The insinuation that the oppression of the Kurds was launched by AKP, rather than by the secular Turkish...
As with Michael Gerson on torture, Robert Bernstein believes that some countries should be ipso facto exempt from criticism for human rights abuses:The organization is expressly concerned mainly with how.
Jeffrey Herf has taken to The New Republic in an effort to convince Americans that negotiations will go nowhere unless we threaten Tehran with an extensive bombing campaign. Herf is.