To a purist, the market is the most efficient mechanism for economic development. The morality of any such development takes a secondary role in the massive American military-industrial economy. The evangelicalism of fiscal conservatives also produces an ironic dualism in the uneasy marriage to
Much social media content is banal. It is even sometimes downright annoying and pervasive. It is often characterized by Heidi and Spencer’s latest update, Ashton Kutcher tweeting candid shots of Demi Moore or the like. It is often frat-level humor with silly Facebook fan pages, themes, quizzes
There is no doubt that for some children home schooling is appropriate. However, one also has to remain suspect that such strict environmental control and restriction of potentially opposing views can also be abused. In fact, one could also be forgiven for suspecting that for some parents of a p
The debate around health reform in the US is partisan and vitriolic. It has been cast as a battle between the evil of big government versus the efficiency of the free markets. Any reform is demonized as social tinkering, and the fact of the matter that a bloated, over-expensive system with compa
To many Westerners Pakistan is an enigma. They are served simplistic picture by the media of a complex country told that is extremely poor, a sometime ally, nuclear armed, but suspected of having a sympathy for the Taliban and an age old grudge against India. . Even the most well-informed We
Sarkozy loves his moment on the world political stage. While he is a target of criticism for many with his ofttimes self-serving and grandiose gestures, he does have a flair for the dramatic. From his Rainbow cabinet, to the public seduction of his model wife, Sarkozy seems a man destined for fa
There is a very active "real" world of jihad on the Internet, at least for the participants. The blogs, bulletin boards are active, virulent and pervasive. The authorities hunt these sites in a game of cat and mouse, but as fast as they are blocked another version springs to life on a different
01.12.2010 | Afghanistan, Asia, Editorials, Middle East | Stuart Ford
"He was singing like a canary, then we charged him in civilian proceedings, he got a lawyer and shut up," Slade Gorton, a member of the 9/11 Commission that investigated the Sept 2001 terror attacks on the US, told The Sunday Telegraph. "I find it incomprehensible that this administration is tr
It appears that the African peace keeping troops did what escaped the US and European authorities, and arrested a potential bomber with a syringe and explosive chemicals before he boarded the flight. It is no surprise that Somalia lies just across the Gulf from Yemen, but this is a fact that see
Ahmadinejad has gotten in trouble with clerics before in relation to his “experience’ with the Mahdi. He earned their censure and ridicule from his opponents when he claimed to feel the supposed ‘glow’ and haloed presence of the Mahdi at his UN speech. Ahmadinejad is widely rumored t
Cape Town has problems ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. All countries hosting such an event have issues to address such as logistics, crime, traffic jams and more. Cape Town has all these and in addition has a problem with rogue baboons. According to local reports, there are about 420 baboons
When is marketing an opportunity a case of generational theft? There are some commentators arguing that just such a thing is going on in Ethiopia at present. The government of this impoverished and food-insecure nation is actively marketing itself as one of the world's leading destinations for t
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