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Isolationism as reverse psychology
Sometimes, thoughts just pop in my head and I wonder if they have any possible real value?
With all the problems in the world community today and the inability of fixing anything by anyone, I wonder what would happen if all of a sudden the United States just pulled out of every place that is not our soil and proclaimed…
“We are now going to practice Isolationsim”
Kill each other, we don’t care, go ahead, really, it’s ok. We believe we have everything we need to protect ourselves and our borders are now closed. It’s going to be a little tougher on [...]
Power’s world: Obama’s foreign policy
President Woodrow Wilson: a man with the right idea? “Come home, America” said US presidential candidate George McGovern during the Vietnam War, whilst going down to a bad defeat against Richard Nixon. But these are the words Barack Obama should be uttering today, if he wants to live up to his credo. The Republicans—and some Democrats—will try to tear him apart for this, tarring him with the brush of isolationism. But it is not isolationism. If handled with perception and commitment for the lo
Social networking (Www.OSIR.org.in) online can improve skills: executives - West Online
The use of social networking tools such as Facebook, blogs and even the online game World of Warcraft could improve business, a report based on the opinions of senior executives shows. The report, Executive Insights into Enterprise Social Network Source: www.thewest.com.au Obama ends American isolationism over climate change - Belfast Telegraph Prospects for success in the world’s struggle to combat global warming have been transformed at a stroke after US President-elect Barack Obama made i
Real Renewal - Creating a post-boomer Liberal Party
Taylor Owen and I published an op-ed entitled “Real Renewal” in today’s Toronto Star. You can comment on the piece here. —- OPINION How about real Liberal renewal? Nov 20, 2008 04:30 AM David Eaves Taylor Owen In the weeks since one of its worst ever electoral performances, the conversation within the Liberal Party of Canada has rightly turned to renewal. To date, the establishment consensus suggests two options: shift right and recapture the ideological “centre,” or unite the left and me
Diane Francis: America: get your financial act together
America must smarten up. The global economy has crashed and the cause must be determined to prevent another. My concern is that the big problem facing the world’s leaders, who are trying to fix the global economy, will be America’s denial of its responsibility for this mess and its resistance to submitting to supranational institutions, [...]Related stories:World leaders pledge to combat global crisisBush cites progress at world economic summit
Reverting to Christianity in Kosovo
Christopher Deliso, the author of The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West, wrote a fascinating article last month at Balkan Analysis about the changes that are occurring in the newly independent state of Kosovo.The situation is complex. Yes, there is still the threat of radical Islam, which established and strengthened a network of mujahideen after 1999 under the UN protectorate. The radicals channeled Saudi money into the building of mosques and used fina
The Case Against Joe Lieberman
It's Time for Joe to Go. Tomorrow, 19 Senators Democratic Senators on the Steering and Outreach Committee vote to determine committee chairs. They need to hear from us to ensure that they relieve Joe Lieberman of his Homeland Security Chairmanship -- and not to give him another Committee chair. Lieberman has not investigated one meaningful scandal in his role as chairman during the Bush Administration, and he is certain to cause problems for an Obama Administration. The case against Joe is l
The made-in-the-USA crisis
America: Smarten up America must smarten up. The global economy has crashed and the cause must be determined to prevent another. My concern is that the big problem facing the world’s leaders, who are trying to fix the global economy, will be America’s denial of its responsibility for this mess and its resistance to submitting to supranational institutions, solutions or oversight. Such American policy isolationism could sink the planetary ship. It's obvious that the biggest misdeeds were perp
Commentary: McCain as Obama’s new friend?
PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain will meet for the first time on Monday since the election. The meeting comes at an important time for McCain, who must decide what to do with remainder of his career in the Senate. With his reputation severely harmed as a result of the campaign — some Republicans furious at him for having lost the White House with a poor campaign and some Democrats furious with the negative tone that his campaign embraced in S
From Colony to Superpower, Part II
This is the second installment in the 20 part series Rob Farley and I have commenced to review George Herring's From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776. See the Herring Review tag below for previous entries.Chapter 2 covers the 1789-1801 period. This of course was a period fraught with dangers for a young nation. Caught between the British and French, both of which wanted to use the U.S. for its own advantage during the wars of the French Revolution, America could easily hav
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/16/2008
Don’t miss “Letter From Iceland” under the “General” heading. The most concentrated essence of the financial crisis can be found in Iceland, and the account of recent events there is fascinating — and sobering.Thanks to C. Cantoni, Conservative Swede, Diana West, Insubria, JD, no2liberals, RRW, TB, and all the other tipsters who sent these in. Headlines and articles are below the fold.- - - - - - - - -USAAmerica’s Economic Crisis is Beyond the Reach of Traditional SolutionsAn Examination of Obam
The mortal sublime
More Guardian stuff here as Jeanette Winterson does a long piece about T S Eliot: So when people say that poetry is merely a luxury for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read much at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers -
Now We know why this guy was Demonised….He speaks out!
West is Fighting War of Religion - Not Terror September 23, 2008 | The West needs to understand that it is not just fighting against terrorism. It is fighting a war of religion. “Pretending otherwise, as the EU is doing, is to ignore the elephant in the room”, said Ashley Mote MEP, independent, South-East England after a debate on terrorism in the European Parliament in Brussels today, 23 September 2008. Earlier, Mr Mote had been allowed one minute to speak in a debate of terrorism lasting thr
Not So Good News
In another parallel from the Great Depression comes this article in the Toronto Star on the International Conference on the Capitalist Crisis that occurerd in 1933 after the election of FDR. The conference was a failure as America wrapped itself in the cloak of isolationism and protectionism.Experts say the efforts in London in 1933 collapsed in part on the spasms of isms – the tangled web of conceits driving the dying days of British imperialism, post-crash American capitalism, Stalin's iron-fi
The North Cyprus Property Boom and Reunification - The Role of Socialism
Prior to the election of Dimitris Christofias in February of this year and Mehmet Ali Talat in 2005, the partitioned island of Cyprus was governed and influenced by isolationism, nationalism and unilateralism; former presidents Rauf Denktash and Tassos Papadopoulos, both long standing presidents of the Republic of Cyprus and North Cyprus respectively, advocated strong political wills to strengthen and cement the partition that had existed in the prime of their political careers and had been han
Can China save the Australian economy?
As markets continue tumbling to record lows on an almost daily basis, most world leaders are being forced to concede that a sharp protracted global recession is unavoidable. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Khan admitted that the world is “on the cusp of recession.” By Matt Wilson, Socialist Party In such times it would seem absurd for Australian economists to assert that we have already “survived what was almost certainly the worst economic and financial crisis of our lifetime.” However, the dri
Forget the War on Terror. This is the Struggle for Science
Forget the War on Terror. This is the Struggle for Science By The New York Times Justin Dargin of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, flagged an article in Forbes magazine, noting: One missed facet of the explosive economic growth of the emerging economies of Asia and the Gulf, are the astounding amounts that they have granted to the top R&D educational institutions in the US. Even Portugal, not normally ranked among the top R&D supporters, funded an extensive portfolio of post-gra
Joining TMV
After many years of reading TMV I finally took the plunge and asked to join as a writer, and I’d like to thank Joe for accepting it. I’m sure greasing his palms through the years didn’t hurt and now that he’s successful enough to hang out with celebrities I thought I’d call in the favor. My focus is going to be a little bit different and I want to spend this first post talking about it a bit. I’ve seen many incarnations of TMV, both in web layout and author makeup. The only person I’m sure h
The Plot Against America thoughts
As I mentioned before, one of the somewhat strange things about The Plot Against America is Roth’s decision to use his own name as the name of the narrator—who also shares a birth year, birthplace, and presumably quite a bit of childhood history with the author. One of the reasons I find this so strange is that Roth has written plenty of novels narrated by alter egos with different names, and he chooses to break the mold in a book that’s specifically not about Roth’s real history, because it’s n
North Korea announces border closures
North Korea has taken its habitual isolationism to the logical extreme: It has announced the closure of its borders with China and South Korea. Beginning December 10, land routes to and from China will be interrupted; Chinese tourists who want to go to the North Korean capital will have to take direct flights from Beijing or Shenyang. No visas will be given to the inhabitants of the three Chinese provinces bordering North Korea, who are former North Korean citizens now in exile. The decision
Jihadist Messages to Obama Reflect Their Uncertainty
Jihadist Messages to Obama Reflect Their Uncertainty - CQ Homeland Security Among the diplomatic overtures being made to Barack Obama comes this one, from Iraq: The president-elect should return America to pre-World War II isolationism, leave the region, stop supporting tyrants and refrain from meddling in Muslim affairs, and the United States will be allowed to buy [...]
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