Archive for the ‘Foreign Affairs’ Category
Why Don’t They Just Let It Default?
I really do not understand this: After more than 12 hours of talks, the countries that use the euro reached an agreement early Tuesday to hand Greece euro130 billion ($170 billion) in extra bailout loans to save it from a potentially disastrous default next month, an European Union diplomat said. The euro surged as the [...]
February 20, 2012
· 
John Cole · 
128 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything
Open Thread: Sunday Salmagundi
(Tom Toles via GoComics.com) In an entirely different sense, Katrina vanden Heuvel hopes that the progressive backlash against Rick Sanctorom-onius and his ilk might just make 2012 a”Year of the Woman“: “It also seems that support for Democratic women candidates is attributable to more than choice and health issues. A poll conducted by EMILY’s List [...]
February 19, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 18 Comments
Posted in: Election 2012, Foreign Affairs, Open Thread
Crossing The Rubin Con: Endless Wargasm
Jennifer Rubin pauses from her Romney cheerleading day job to go after the 51% of America that actually learned a lesson from the decade of wars we’ve been thrust into, as the latest Pew Research poll finds there’s not too much support for backing up an Israeli attack on Iran. With only 39% of Americans [...]
February 16, 2012
· Zandar · 173 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Military, Our Failed Media Experiment, Security Theatre, This is not where you come to do your madness!, War on Terror aka GSAVE®, We Are All Mayans Now
Senses Working Overtime
So much win and so much fail at the same time: Israeli newspaper Haaretz on Tuesday reported that Anonymous hacked the office of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and dumped hundreds of emails online, including damning prep notes for Assad’s December 2011 ABC News interview with Barbara Walters, in which a press officer encouraged bringing up [...]
February 7, 2012
· John Cole · 45 Comments
Posted in: Clown Shoes, Foreign Affairs
The abortion mill that conservatives just love. They can’t get enough of funding THIS abortion mill!
Now, after a few days, here’s my contribution to the ongoing Komen-foundation-shooting-themselves-in-both-feet-after-putting-both-feet-in-their-mouths-gate. I’d like to take a moment to discuss the abortion mill that conservatives love with all their heart. That organization that they want to force every American to support that kills tens of thousands of the pre-born every year. Ladies and gentlemen, I [...]
February 5, 2012
· Soonergrunt · 58 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Open Thread, The Party of Fiscal Responsibility
Occupy the Toybox
Lego figurines, Kinder surprises and other toys played the role of ‘demonstrators’. Photograph: Sergey Teplyakov/vkontakte I would love this even I didn’t have a half-dozen tchotchkes on my desk right now. From the Guardian: Police in the Siberian city of Barnaul have asked prosecutors to investigate the legality of a recent protest that saw dozens [...]
January 30, 2012
· Anne Laurie · 59 Comments
Posted in: #notintendedtobeafactualstatement, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Foreign Affairs
Smooth Operator
So, you know, this happened. But according to wingnuts, Obama is a pussy who gets pushed around.
January 25, 2012
· John Cole · 47 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs
Kthug’s Slow Motion Nightmare
You honestly have to feel for Paul Krugman and the handful of others who have been telling us all along that austerity policies are bound to fail: Europe’s leaders braced their nations for a turbulent year, with their beleaguered economies facing a threat on two fronts: widening deficits that force more borrowing but increasing austerity [...]
January 2, 2012
· John Cole · 37 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Free Markets Solve Everything
The Russian Protests and Their “Network Hamster”
Dmitry Golubovsky, editor of Esquire Russia, interviews “Alexei Navalny — blogger, political activist, and self-described “network hamster” “: ESQUIRE: The primary cause of the current protests across Russia were the federal parliamentary elections on December 4. What do you remember most about voting day? ALEXEI NAVALNY: Everybody was nervous and worried, myself probably more than [...]
December 29, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 20 Comments
Posted in: Don't Mourn, Organize, Excellent Links, Foreign Affairs
Tears of rage
Too much of the coverage of death of Kim Jong Il focused on what it meant geopolitically, or specifically for the United States. Good news for Mitt Romney! Etc. Etc. Reader E sends along a few articles that focus on the plight of the North Korean people, one about the outbursts of crying that North [...]
December 20, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 97 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Other
Kim Jong Il is dead
Let’s have an open thread about North Korea (via).
December 18, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 186 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Open Thread
The Professor teaches history as fantasy…
The Professor likes to cast himself as a “Historian”. When you listen to his views on the events of the past and their meanings it becomes quite clear that his idea of history is as a tool for telling stories that support his political goals, please his patrons and line his pockets. For Newt, History [...]
December 11, 2011
· Dennis G. · 149 Comments
Posted in: Assholes, Election 2012, Foreign Affairs, Good News For Conservatives, Post-racial America, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Occupy (Well, Not Exactly) Russia
(Jeff Danziger’s website) From the Guardian, “Russians come out in force to protest against alleged electoral fraud“: Up to 50,000 people braved the cold and snow on Saturday to turn out for the largest ever protest against the rule of prime minister Vladimir Putin. Bolotnaya Square, across the river from the Kremlin in central Moscow, [...]
December 11, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 31 Comments
Posted in: All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Foreign Affairs
Friday Afternoon Open Thread
(Nick Anderson via GoComics.com) What’s on the agenda for the upcoming weekend?
December 9, 2011
· Anne Laurie · 73 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Open Thread
Look back in anger
I know I give fellow academics a lot of shit for being politically naive, but the mathematicians I talked to in London last June were all saying exactly what Brad DeLong and Krugman are saying now (via), that Cameron is fucked and that Clegg has probably permanently completely destroyed the Lib Dems (whom most of [...]
December 3, 2011
· DougJarvus Green-Ellis · 102 Comments
Posted in: Foreign Affairs, Other, Politics
