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The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

Given the Democrat vs. Republican and left vs. right rancor that seems to suffuse every issue today, the conservative pushback against the despicable Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol over their McCarthyite tagging of Department of Justice lawyers who defended (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

Could partition solve Ukraine’s problems?

Could partition solve Ukraine's problems?

In the light of Ukraine’s election result, Ethan S. Burger offers a proposal for the creation of a new Ukrainian state. Partition would do more than better reflect the country’s national/ethnic composition, he suggests. It could also make the (...)

19 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | openDemocracy

Poor management takes CTA to the Poorhouse

Poor management takes CTA to the Poorhouse

Just days before the 2008 Summer Olympics, Richard M. Daley, Chicago’s Mayor-For-Life, was in China taking test rides on Beijing’s new state-of-the art subway. With dreams of the 2016 Chicago games dancing in his head, Mayor Daley wanted (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Monroe Anderson

Who watches the watchmen?

Who watches the watchmen?

In a modern democracy Media should watch over governors, over their behavior and their declarations, but who should watch over Media active execution of this crucial role? Italian website Lavoce.info reported about a group of economists collecting in a (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Massimo Famularo

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Sixteen Mexicans, most of them teens, were gunned down at a high school party by multiple, heavily armed killers, who reportedly filed away in silence last weekend. A horrified world viewed photos of Sunday morning streets running red with innocent blood. (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Billie Greenwood

DSK for French president 2012 - part...are you still counting?

DSK for French president 2012 - part...are you still counting?

An update on the French media’s fascination with a potential presidential bid by Dominique Strauss-Kahn in 2012. The next presidential election here in France might be a little more than over two years away, but that doesn’t stop pollsters (...)

5 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Johnny Summerton

The Party Of No: Cluelessly Do They Go

The Party Of No: Cluelessly Do They Go

How richly ironic that Barack Obama has prompted something of a rebirth in the Republican Party but this diminished group of hacks hasn’t been able to figure out how to use it beyond throwing sand and screaming NO! This seems to be lost on the (...)

3 Feb. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

We have been at our best when at our boldest – so AV?

We have been at our best when at our boldest – so AV?

Two striking phrases appear in Tony Blair’s 2002 Labour Conference speech – the famous “We have been at our best when at our boldest” and a lesser known line “Thanks to the brilliance and vision of Gordon Brown we (...)

3 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | Jon Worth

That light difference

Do Italians watch over their governors? Can Italian democracy be healthy if voters do not endorse good behavior and sanction bad? Scott Brown, a Republican former model, won the Massachusetts Senate race. The election, in a state where Democrats (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Massimo Famularo

Violence and democracy in Bolivia

Violence and democracy in Bolivia

Dr Ana Maria Encina’s election earlier this month as mayor of Santa Cruz is a sign that Bolivian women are not going to be deterred by the increasing levels of violence directed at them as they run for public office. By Carolina Gottardo and Maria (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | openDemocracy

‘Chemical Ali’ hanged in Iraq

‘Chemical Ali' hanged in Iraq

Saddam Hussein henchman Ali Hassan al-Majeed, aka Chemical Ali, was executed today for crimes against humanity, says Iraq government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh. He’d received four death sentences “leading up to Monday’s hanging for crimes (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Jon Newton

Policy Development By Panic

Policy Development By Panic

Obama is vociferously attacking “risk taking”, that very human characteristic at the heart of America’s success. American taxpayers should not read anything into today’s stock market supposed reactions to the President’s (...)

22 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | PacificGatePost

Dominique Strauss-Kahn has the "wind in his sails"

This Thursday’s issue of the weekly French news magazine, Le Point, should make interesting reading for Dominique Strauss-Kahn, or DSK as he’s most commonly known here, the head of the International Monetary Fund. Because even though his (...)

21 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

The French government’s online million-billion loan muddle

The French government's online million-billion loan muddle

It’s an easy enough mistake perhaps getting a few zeros confused especially when the amounts involved are to most of us pretty mind boggling. But it’s not really the sort of error you would expect from a government purportedly more adept at (...)

30 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Johnny Summerton

Rachida Dati - a model European parliamentarian?

Rachida Dati - a model European parliamentarian?

How much does Rachida Dati enjoy her job as a European parliamentarian? It’s surely a tough life being a European parliamentarian especially when you weren’t that keen on the job in the first place and now find yourself having to spend your (...)

16 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French Socialist party’s "head of human resources"

He’s at it again. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has been bashing the opposition Socialist party. And while it wasn’t supposed to have been recorded on camera, somehow a clip of his sometimes less-than-diplomatic (and in this case (...)

11 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Music to the ears France’s lip-synching government ministers

An all-singing, all dancing, all lip-synching video featuring government ministers of France’s ruling centre-right UMP party. It’s the latest video to create a buzz on the Internet here in France; members of the governing centre-right Union (...)

10 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Johnny Summerton

Dominique Strauss-Kahn’s restroom break with Nicolas Sarkozy

Dominique Strauss-Kahn takes Nicolas Sarkozy to task during a private moment. All right, so let’s end the week with the news to end all news, as reported "exclusively" (and then picked up by other French media outlets) in the weekly (...)

7 Dec. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

The Great Geopolitical Battle Over Energy Transit Routes

As we all live in the present, it is very hard to fully assess the future implications of decisions supported or made by political and business leaders. An extraordinary game of geo-strategy is under way to lock in long-term agreements, notably in the (...)

1 Dec. 2009 | | Staffjam

DSK for French president 2012 - the saga continues

Dominique Strauss-Kahn refuses to be drawn on French presidential aspirations, but that doesn’t stop journalists asking him. The head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn (or DSK as he’s more commonly known here), (...)

30 Nov. 2009 | | Johnny Summerton

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