In an op-ed on the highbrow Project Syndicate, Shashi Tharoor – former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under-Secretary General – came back on the reasons why India decided not to short list any US fighter jet for its “largest single military tender in the country’s history”. In doing so he spiced-up [...]
If you are a sucker for political sagas brought into movies you are going to love the latest ‘fiction’ to be screened at the Cannes Festival later this year.
French president Nicolas Sarkozy is now the subject of La Conquête (The Conquest). It follows his ambitious rise to power from his appointment as Interior Minister by [...]
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If you wanted to get a quick update on the various schools of analysis after the release of the Australian Labor Government 2011 Federal Budget here are some short extracts and links to pieces representatives of the major camps in the [...]
Would you like to work 10 hours a day, seven days a week, own 29 possessions (including 4 chopsticks and a mobile phone), live in a dormitory and be able to count with your hands the number of times you’ve been alone in the same room with your spouse?
For millions of urban migrants across the [...]
On election night 25 Nov 2007 Australian Labor leader Kevin Rudd put an end to 11 ½ years of conservative government standing on a stage by the words “new leadership, fresh ideas”. A year later in November 2008 Barack Obama also ended a decade of neo-conservatism in the US. He too had an emphatic message [...]
No New Hope for the Debt Star (Episode IV) as S&P downgrades US Sovereign Debt, while BRICS seek “Phase Out” of Dollar
This has been a tough month for the US financial empire and its satellites, which is looking more and more like the ‘Debt Star’ of the movie. Challenges are not only coming from the [...]
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