You can be the biggest bitch in the world, but even the nicest guy with the best reputation can't get away with telling a crude joke around you. The people don't matter because the people making the decision have never and will never meet either party. The only relevant parts of the ...
I’m a bit confused here. The first thing Obama did when he “won” the Democratic nomination was go to AIPAC. (the second thing he did was go to La Raza, which is Spanish for “AIPAC”.) He has always struck me as willing to play ball with his Zionist masters. The same people ...
The Trump administrationwas reluctantto confront Saudi Arabia over the killing of Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who lived in Virginia. Beyondrevoking the visasof some Saudi officials implicated in Khashoggi’s death, Trump did nothing to punish the kingdom for Khashoggi’storture, assassin...
" He said, "Go down to Puerto Vallarta, down to Rosa's Cantina." We did. Rosa was there. She took us to a fast boat, it sped us down the Pacific coast of Mexico. Down to Yelapa, a small fishing village. No roads went to this village. We curved around. Young boys in dug-out...
How did a country as conservative as the United States ever manage to elect a man as utterly weird as Donald Trump? For decades, politicians have tried to sell themselves to ordinary people by pretending to be normal. Look at me eat a hot dog at a diner, just like all of you gurning...
Once the U.S.S.R. collapsed in 1991, Soros saw it as an opportunity to build institutions for democracies in countries once ruled by communism. That year, he founded Central European University, a school in Budapest aimed at promoting democratization and international cooperation. ...
The Soviet Union never went so far again towards pure Communism, except in the sense that private capital was not allowed. The effects of this regime were bad enough, though it now allows the diehards to claim that Marxism was never "tried" in the Soviet Union. It was, but even Lenin...
The importance of the "big bang," as it was called, only started to become clear after the second event: the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The former Soviet countries had no institutional ability to regulate the new capitalism which had been emerging among...
I have the data that you would need to address the question (comparing countries that reformed fast with those who did little reform), and he has a single observation (the US) which proves almost nothing. happyjuggler0, I agree, even the Nordic countries have sharply slashed their top ...
The period 1912-49 in China is commonly called ‘Nationalist’. But at no time did it have a functional government that deserved the nameNationalist. A minority of the warlords tried to be, and nowadays get listed as ‘patriotic’ by Beijing. But the people on top never dared to insist ...