Author: ask

The list is getting painfully long. Compulsively covering up “mishaps” and truth appears to be the regular MO for the US armed forces involved in combat operations in the two major wars going on at present. Abu...

It wouldn’t be a day too soon. And it now seems that major economies are coming around to support the old Tobin Tax. A Tobin tax, suggested by Nobel Laureate economist James Tobin, is a concept initially associated with a...

This is not much of a diary entry, but I thought it would be useful for the community to have knowledge of Relief Web In my view the best source of updates on the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Haiti. Link filtered for...

The failed attempt to down an airliner on Christmas Day and the intelligence failures leading up to it continue to dominate every day’s news cycle. Meanwhile, there has been scarcely a word in the media about the killing...

Many of BT readers probably recall that the only reports coming out of Gaza during the Israeli incursion exactly a year ago was from Norwegian doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse. Cast Lead Apart from his work in Gaza, Professor...