Month: March 2006

Security Strategy: Comedy or Tragedy?

No, it’s not a remake of the film Doctor Strangelove.  It’s the real foreign policy and security strategy really being conducted in real-time by the real United States of America in the real world. Below the...

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Budget Day in UK. Car pollution tax announced.

Announcing what he called a “Budget for Britain’s future,” the Chacellor for the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, who is favored to replace Tony Blair as the head of the Labour Party (who knows when?), today delivered...

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Treason. Sympathy For The Devil.

Treason doth never prosper: what’s the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. Sir John Harrington (1561-1612) Which is RIGHT where we stand at the moment. Just as it always was. Reuters: Morgan Stanley...

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Why You Should Go See “V for Vendetta”

[WARNING: contains spoilers] Why should you go see V for Vendetta? It’s not the examination of the terrorist/freedom fighter angle, i.e., the question of when, if ever, violence is a valid response to oppression. Nor is it...

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