Posted in daily notes on September 27, 2006 | No Comments »
starting out, a longish
A review of The Twilight on the Nation State: Globalisation, Chaos and War.
Left to capitalist devices and sans human intervention, we’ll head for chaos, argues Prem Shankar Jha.
PREM SHANKAR JHA
Technology, the information revolution in particular, does indeed have the power to transform the world for the better and, as Jeffrey [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 26, 2006 | No Comments »
Starting with Juan Cole
Shaikh Khalaf al-`Ulyan, a member of the Sunni fundamentalist Iraqi Accord Front, emphasized that “The American presence in the country is dependent on the security situation. A timetable for withdrawal has become an urgent need at the present moment, even if some of the political blocs do not support an immediate withdrawal.” [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 25, 2006 | No Comments »
And
From The Economist, an article on a better way to help America’s jobless, and a look at how boosting unions won’t do much for America’s workers.
Research by Erica Groshen and Simon Potter, of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, suggests that whereas temporary lay-offs explained much of the jumps in unemployment during [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 24, 2006 | No Comments »
Starting out.
Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat
That’s the headline in the NY Times, and the concept is as straightforward as it comes.
A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has helped spawn a new generation of Islamic radicalism [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 23, 2006 | No Comments »
And so,
Rising weapons price tags cause sticker shock, but it’s escalating personnel costs that are going to cripple the U.S. military.
In 2004, pay and benefits cost the Defense Department $112,000 a year per uniformed service member, according to a study by MIT researcher Cindy Williams. And it’s more than that now.
Personnel costs [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 22, 2006 | No Comments »
Most impotant today as often, Billmon
The Hard Core
It’s important for Americans and others across the world to understand the kind of people held at Guantanamo. These aren’t common criminals, or bystanders accidentally swept up on the battlefield — we have in place a rigorous process to ensure those held at Guantanamo Bay belong at [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 20, 2006 | No Comments »
and
THE HEALTHCARE BOOM REVISITED….Michael Mandel, who wrote the Business Week cover story I blogged about yesterday, has a blog of his own. That’s sort of cool, no?
As you may recall, the takeaway from his story was that the American economy is being kept afloat by jobs in the healthcare industry. If you take those [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 19, 2006 | No Comments »
Starting with Juan Cole
As for her critique of my present lack of policy prescriptions for Iraq, I’m just being realistic. It is increasingly silly to dream up ten point plans to resolve the Iraq crisis. It would be nice to see a multilateral approach, but we should not fool ourselves that the Bangladeshis can succeed [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 18, 2006 | No Comments »
Starting the day
and
AP - The Dalai Lama urged thousands of teenagers at a world peace conference Saturday to embrace globalization and accept people from all countries as neighbors and collaborators, not rivals.
“There are no national boundaries. The whole globe is becoming one body,” he said at the PeaceJam convention. “In these circumstances, [...]
Posted in daily notes on September 11, 2006 | No Comments »
Religion goes to those who have less wealth and opportunity. Technical society has not dealt with this well, in fact is the major force for dividing richer ever and poor ever more
By Philip Pullella and Madeline Chambers. MUNICH, Germany (Reuters) - Western societies are losing their souls to scientific rationality and frightening believers in the [...]
