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“You have my word that we will keep drilling everywhere we can.” —President Obama, March 22 2012— “Liberal” may be the most elastic term in American English. Even pushing aside its use as a right-wing slur or a cultural stereotype, the capaciousness of “liberalism”...
In foreign policy, the Obama administration has continued what Bush began, argues Phil Gasper I DON’T often read the conservative columnist Ross Douthat in the New York Times, but a week after the Obama administration’s assassination of Osama bin Laden, Douthat for...
Like a cancer brought under remission in one part of the body, only to pop up again elsewhere, the world capitalist economic crisis is back Last year the Greek ponzi scheme, whereby the extent of Greek national debt was hidden from its creditors (international finance...
Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness” Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers. Ankara Turkey, December 9 – 10, 2011IntroductionThe relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central...
US President Barack Obama said on Friday 14 October 2011 that 100 troops would help Uganda track down Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebel chief Joseph Kony and other senior LRA leaders. This is interesting, indeed, but it is not news. The US has been among those who...
The relation between imperialism and democracy has been debated and discussed over 2500 years, from fifth century Athens to Liberty Park in Manhattan. Contemporary critics of imperialism (and capitalism) claim to find a fundamental incompatibility, citing the growing...
Two back-to-back victories, from the point of view of those in power, has left some commentators speculating that U.S. foreign policy has turned a page towards a less militaristic approach under the guidance of President Obama. These events are the killing of Colonel...
Two back-to-back victories, from the point of view of those in power, has left some commentators speculating that U.S. foreign policy has turned a page towards a less militaristic approach under the guidance of President Obama. These events are the killing of Colonel...
Marxism-Leninism as a movement and form of regime in Africa attained the height of its powers – certainly of its access to state power – between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s. Its ‘moment’ followed in the wake of an earlier failed experiment in ‘African socialism’...