On November 30, 1999, protests began in Seattle, Washington against the World Trade Organization. The WTO meetings offered unions, environmentalists, and various social and economic justice activists from around the world a forum to voice their rejection of the neoliberal free trade agreements of the late...
Some days I find the perfect stock photography to accompany a story, and I think to myself, "SEK, what you published at 9:56 a.m. is awesome. You cropped that perfectly.
A few days ago the Prime Minister published an op-ed in the Financial Times (paywall) on the back of Government musings about placing restrictions on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants to.
And they are mixed. “Too troll; didn’t read.”--anthrofred "This guy is paid to write? His prose has all the inflated volume of a wet fart, and twice the odor.”--stepped pyramids "Will make heads explode!”--Pancake Aficionado “Can too much stupidity make a head explode? Perhaps if I...
Some suggestions for getting into the Thanksgiving spirit: Cut in line, and when someone complains, claim you were there first. Walk into someone's yard, plant a flag in it, and.
One of the things I teach here at Plymouth is a MA seminar on methodology and research design (for the MA in International Relations, but that's another story). I'm in.
Welcome to the one day a year where the market is wrong about the ineluctable blandness of turkey! (Djw and the Lemieux family did in fact celebrate early with an appetizer of tagliatelle carbonara last night.) Whether you're lucking out by getting salmon like us, are...
My belief that Thanksgiving is the most overrated food day of the year is well-documented so I won't go over the arguments again here except to say that most everything.
Over at the Diplomat I do some pre-emptive pundit pruning: The momentum provided by the international nuclear agreement with Iran could reinvigorate the Obama administration’s diplomatic efforts in East Asia, lending.
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, I spoke with Erica Chenoweth about the practicality and effectiveness of non-violent protest: See especially implications for Occupy and other protest in the United States.
You stay classy.
I know that if there were some sort of wingnut apex of stupidity, it wouldn’t really take the form of a sharp point; it’d be more like a longest plateau.