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Did you hear about the “family values” party rejecting a bill to fight pedophilia? You should have.
Archive for the ‘Foreign Policy’ Category
December 21st, 2010
December 1st, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy, Latin America
As long as Fidel Castro (age 84, his brother Raul is 79) is alive, U.S.-Cuban relations will be largely frozen in their present form, as will many internal aspects of Cuban society. Sometimes individual leaders become their foreign and domestic policies, and when they finally join the choir invisible, massive pent-up changes are suddenly unleashed. [...]
November 12th, 2010
Category: Conservatism, Defense and national security, Economics, Financial crises, Foreign Policy, Republican Party
The double legacyof Bush Republicanism ain hastening American decline.
October 22nd, 2010
Dilma Rousseff heads for an easy win.
October 16th, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy, Iraq
As we seem to be going through a slow spot in postings, I feel comfortable re-cycling here at RBC my observations on the state of Iraqi Kurdistan, which were originally published in the San Francisco Chronicle but now reside on the regional government’s website. As Salaam Alaikum
October 2nd, 2010
Category: Drug Policy, Foreign Policy
Those of you who speak German may be interested in this article on Proposition 19 in Der Spiegel. UPDATE 6 OCTOBER 2010, also in German, here is a Swiss perspective from NZZ. One question the foreign press often asks me is whether the passage of Proposition 19 would violate the US’s responsibilities as a signatory [...]
September 30th, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy
Few people seem able to resist guessing which nations will dominate the future, and Business Insider has just published an unusually bad article of that sort. Interesting to learn that the role of our ally Brazil is to follow our orders, but more importantly this article doesn’t mention the importance of stable and effective governance. [...]
August 28th, 2010
The Financial Reform Act surprisingly includes the long-awaited requirement for natural resource companies to publish what they pay to kleptocrats.
August 25th, 2010
Category: Foreign Policy
One of the crooks around Karzai turns out to be on the CIA payroll. So what else is new?
August 10th, 2010
If you believe than US foreign policy should serve moral and humanitarian goals, then Afghanistan might be the worst place to start.
