With both the potato famine and the current economic crisis, the devastation resulted from conscious policy choices by the powerful.
Ireland: The Great Famine 2.0
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Review: Dancing With Dynamite
Dynamite is dangerous stuff. Drop it and you visit the clouds. Misuse it and you might just blow up the neighborhood. This is why Benjamin Dangl’s title for his book on Latin America’s leftish surge is so apt. Social movements can be explosive.
WikiLeaks XIII: Cables Reveal the Extent to Which U.S. and Russia Vied for Prized “Bout-y”
Viktor Bout’s Russian supporters may have used perjury and bribery to keep the U.S. from extraditing Viktor Bout from Thailand.
Insert Your Own Julian Assange Slur Here: __________
Seldom in recent memory has the wrath of God been called down on anyone like it has been on the WikiLeaks founder.
WikiLeaks X: Russia — From Tyranny to Kleptocracy
The documents paint a grim picture of the quintessential mafia state being run out of the Kremlin’s bowels and the hopeless politics it engenders.
Even Obama Wouldn’t Trade DADT and Dream Act for New START. Would He?
Will the horse trading on New START ever end? First exorbitant funding for the nuclear weapons industry, now legislative measures.
Ideas, Identity and Ideology in Contemporary Japan: The Sato Masaru Phenomenon
Sato Masaru is a name virtually unknown outside Japan (recognized by Google and Wikipedia’s English language search engines only through footnotes from earlier texts by this author) but inescapable within Japan. He may indeed be the most prolific and widely read Japanese intellectual of the early 21st century.
WikiLeaks VIII — Congressman King: “Bring me the head of Julian Assange”
A “clear and present danger”? That’s what Representative Peter King called WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks VI: U.S. Supporting Separatist Kurd Party Fighting Turkey?
The Wikileaks dump will supposedly demonstrate U.S. support for the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, a separatist organization that has been fighting the Turkish state for the past thirty years.
WikiLeaks V: Spying on the UN — Et Tu, Obama Administration?
What did the State Department want with the credit card numbers, as well as phone, fax and even frequent-flyer account numbers of UN officials?