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Welcome to the future!Welcome to the future!Spekulerar om framtiden ur ett globalt perspektiv. Vad är och hur uppnås förändring? Artiklar
Israeli state terror kills 270 in Gaza
2008-12-29 15:17:00 Israel stood defiant last night in the face of mounting international condemnation, as it vowed to continue a massive bombing offensive against key targets in the Gaza Strip that left 205 dead and 700 others injured. Guardian 1 It is hard to gauge Hamas’s popularity, but first signs were that the raids will rally support. “This is ... Mer om: Israel
Samuel Huntington dead at 81
2008-12-29 14:37:00 Samuel Huntington, one of the most influental and controversial American conservative pundits, political commentators and policy advisers of our time, known for books such as Political Order in Changing Societies (1968), The Crisis of Democracy: On the Governability of Democracies (1976), the essay Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order(1993) and for coining ...
Quote of the night
2008-12-08 02:31:00 On the telly, the news is even bleaker than the weather as we hear of shutdown after shutdown, and a recession that has been made official. Gallagher says it reminds him of his childhood days of three-day weeks, followed by industrial carnage and Thatcher. “I remember the 70s constantly being winter in Manchester and the Irish ...
Jewish terrorists shoot Palestinians in Hebron
2008-12-08 02:31:00 Jewish terrorists shot two Palestinians at close range after the Israel i occupant forces neglected to put down a settler riot in Hebron yesterday. Posted in Uncategorized Tagged: Hebron, Israel, Palestine, Settler riot
A decisive moment for Pakistan
2008-12-08 02:31:00 The Pakistan state (meaning primarily its Army, its Inter-Services Intelligence and secondly the PM and the president) is increasingly pushed against the wall. Its handling of the investigation on the Mumbai attack may become decisive for its future. Obama often “talked tough on Pakistan” during the election campaign. In August 2008 USA unusually decided to publicly ...
Pontiac GTO
2008-12-08 02:31:00 Kool Keith on the Auto situation: Realistically expect my gross is twenty times your checks Triple that diamond around your necks, besides I hate cars You feel the turbulence, fasten seatbelts, close your vents Rugged horsepower, M-20-F, executive manifestin you a lesson False representation’ll leave y’all sweatin in the train station Remember I’m blacker than your used Acura That’s why I laugh ...
Clinton?s appointment as secretary of state
2008-12-08 02:31:00 ‘Bamas’ appointment of Clinton as secretary of state may become problematic. Some commentators fear that it opens up for palace wars and moreover that she is more hawkish and generally less tolerant than Obama . But Obama will make sure that everyone knows who’s the president and expectations of what he actually can and want ...
Mumbai attacks
2008-12-08 02:31:00 We are troubled by the horrific attacks in Mumbai last night. Our thoughts goes to the victims, their relatives and friends. We are also concerned about the possible implications of the recent wave of terror in India. While outbursts of ultra violence are legion in other places in the world and even in India, we are ...
Lame duck bails out thanksgiving turkey
2008-12-08 02:31:00 The one president at a time president bails out thanksgiving turkey but stays quiet on economy, although he repeatedly ensures that he’ll keep president-elect Obama informed about the situation and that he appreciate Hank’s hard work. Meanwhile president-elect uses the visible hand, announcing names of economic advisers he’s going to take economic advices of, and ...
NIC 2025 outlook on the end of US dominace
2008-11-21 05:56:00 The National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the US Intelligence Community have come to the same conclusion as Johan Galtung, the Grandfather of peace studies who in 1980 correctly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union within ten years. Namely that US dominance will end within a couple of decades. (In the wake of the Wall ...
NIC 2025 outlook on the end of US dominance
2008-11-21 05:56:00 The National Intelligence Council (NIC) of the US Intelligence Community have come to the same conclusion as Johan Galtung, the Grandfather of peace studies who in 1980 correctly predicted the fall of the Soviet Union within ten years. Namely that US dominance will end within a couple of decades. (In the wake of the Wall ...
Delegation or surrendering of national sovereignty?
2008-11-21 04:02:00 The Swedish parliament passed the Lisbon Treaty earlier tonight. Critics argue that the Lisbon Treaty and the new EU constitution means the end of the Swedish welfare model and a large displacement of sovereignty. Proponents argue that the new constitution makes EU more responsive to common problems such as crime, terrorism, financial crisis, climate change ... Mer om: Sweden
Irakkriget grovt brott mot internationell lag säger brittisk toppdomare
2008-11-19 18:49:00 USA:S och Storbrittaniens agerande, inte bara som världspolis utan som världsmedborgargarde, var ett “grovt brott mot internationell lag” sa Lord Bingham, en av Storbrittaniens mest ansedda domare, vid ett tal på British Institute of International and Comparative Law. Han refererade blandannat till USA:s och Storbrittaniens enhälliga “beslut” att Irak brutit att FN ...
Miljöpolitiken och fiskepolitiken integrerade? 100 miljoner i skattelättnad
2008-11-18 21:23:00 Fiskebestånden längs våra kuster är hotade. Torsken är snart slut i Östersjön och det finns mindre torsk i västerhavet än på länge. Hela den ekologiska balansen rubbas. Vad gör staten? Befriar fiskeflottan från energi-, koldioxid- och svavelskatter vilket gynnar storskaligt fiske (och inte gynnar miljön). Av totalt 1.267 aktiva fiskefartyg får de 92 största ungefär hälften ...
G20 Communiqué
2008-11-16 19:58:00 Proposed solution for complex interconnected problems: a mixture of unrelated things The G20 Communiqué presents lofty goals of growth, unemployment and poverty reductions with little mention of energy, environment and global imbalances or US mortgages and property bubble created the demand and liquidity for Chinese goods financed by Chinese savings. The underlying principles of exploitation ...
Virtual economist intelligence unit: The sterling may depreciate tomorrow
2008-11-16 16:40:00 It should be quite obvious by now that lax frames for the virtual casino economy can have severe ramifications for the productive and reproductive economy. Likewise the virtual economy busts when its “objective” groundings weakens … or appear to weaken. Short term fluctuations in the virtual economy may be less affected by the productive and ...
G20
2008-11-15 02:46:00 ?Undoubtedly, our age will be credited with having seen the end of the self-regulating market.” (Karl Polanyi 1944 The Great Transformation) Kanske den här gången Karl? Det har spekulerats mycket kring möjligheterna till en ny världsordning som en följd av finanskrisen. G20 mötet kan vara slutet för nyliberalismen och starten på Bretton Woods II. Kritiker talar ...
Hillary som utrikesminister?
2008-11-14 10:59:00 Hillary Clinton befinner sig enligt NBC på Obamas “short list” för kandidater till utrikesminister. Vad kan vi förvänta oss när det gäller säkerhetspolitik av den nya administrationen om Clinton blir utrikesminister? En längre analys kommer senare. Hillary är för missilsköldarna i Polen och Tjeckien och för ökade investeringar i “Stjärnornas Krigs-teknologi”. Bill Clinton sa under valrörelsen att Obamas ...
War president-elect
2008-11-14 00:27:00 Det ser ut och bli en stormig transitionsperiod. En rad problem hopar upp sig förutom finanskrisen och det första presidentbytet någonsin under krigstid. Ryssland-USA Medvedev talade dagen efter Obama s seger om att mobilesera stridspetsar för att kontra de planerade och omstridda amerikanska missiljöldarna i Polen och Tjeckien. Detta har tolkats som en medveten provokation för att testa ... Mer om: Afghanistan , Russia , Pakistan
Obama and his advisors
2008-11-11 17:39:00 Many on the left are concerned that Obama ’s choice of conservative foreign policy advisers and neoliberal economic advisers invalidates his commitment to change. However, a glance at earlier presidents show that there are both those who chose competent advisers but don’t let steer the agenda (e.g. Clinton who had many progressive advisors but stuck to ...
Change.gov
2008-11-11 00:11:00 Web-based methods were important for the most efficient and innovative election campaign ever. Now the President-Elect has started a brand new blog in which he will communicate his intentions with the public during the transition period. Det progressiva USA says that this makes it possible for Obama to get his messages through independent of traditional ... Mer om: Change
Bokrecension
2008-11-10 22:19:00 Recension av James C. Scott (1976) The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia The Moral Economy of the Peasant: Rebellion and Subsistence in Southeast Asia beskriver genom fallstudier spänningar mellan riskminimering och vinstmaximering ? eller mellan lokala självhushållsekonomier och spridningen av westfaliska och kapitalistiska logiker under fransk kolonialism ? i ... Mer om: utveckling
Interesting Galbraith quote
2008-11-10 14:55:00 All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership. (John Kennneth Galbraith) For change to succeed during a period of crisis there is a major need of vertical ...
Free trade and sustainable development: Compatible imperatives?
2008-11-10 14:55:00 (Draft. Please don’t quote without asking the author.) Both free trade and sustainable development are seen as imperatives for mainstream policy makers. But are the two concepts compatible? While resolving the tension between ecology and economy can be seen as its goal, sustainable development is a contested concept. In order to be sustainable development it?s been ...
EU?s Climate Change Policy and the Financial Crisis
2008-11-10 14:55:00 (Draft. Please don’t quote without asking author.) “Our businesses are in absolutely no position at the moment to absorb the costs of the regulations that have been proposed.” (Silvio Berlusconi 15 October 2008) http://www.eubusiness.com/news-eu/1224096421.98 “It is important to understand that climate change is not an optional extra, ... It’s a challenge, a real challenge that does not ...
What internal factors determine the American course?
2008-11-10 14:55:00 What are the prospects of dramatic change? Here we will sketch on a model that may help to historically analyse “internal” factors that causes USA to move on the global arena. One need to explore ideas, material and security interests, “great historical figures” and structures and ask questions such as: To what extent can a US ...
The role of USA in the 21st century world order
2008-11-10 14:55:00 One of the ambitions of this blog is to discuss which role USA can and “should” play in the process of constructing world order post January 20 2009. The contributors are of Scandinavian origin, so there is always a risk of a Scandinavian bias. Arguments will sometimes rely on analysts within the traditions of critical ...
Welcome to the future!
2008-11-10 14:55:00 Greetings and welcome to this new and exiting blog! We are looking forward to rational discussions and critical comments from all interested in various issues ranging from the eventual elbow sharpness of the coming second most powerful man in Washington to the expectations of recourse to multilateralism.
Fox News fair and balanced
2008-11-10 03:50:00 Many believe that channels like MSNBC was “pro-Obama /Biden & anti-McCain/Palin” and that FOX were “pro-McCain/Palin and anti-Obama/Biden”. However, a study of the campaign coverage conducted by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism suggests that FOX treated both President and VP candidates to approximately the same level of good and bad press. In comparison, ... Mer om: Media , News
The 7th season conspiracy
2008-11-10 01:39:00 Credible sources say Barack Obama and John McCain and all the other candidates met in secret in late 2006 and decided to base the entire election campaign on the 7th season of the West Wing. Which season will Obama use to base his first year on? |
