10 Articles
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Requiem for the newspaper business?
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Newspaper circulation is not just plunging, it's being run into the ground. So is there a future for this ageing format of journalism?
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Missile Impossible: How the Russians View America's AMD Backdown
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The sudden American back-paddling on AMD is simply a strategic retreat, say the Russians.
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Iran: Why the West Should Back off
The shallow media coverage of the happenings in Iran is typical of the West's knee-jerk reaction to events in Iran
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Why Bobby Jindal May Be Worse Than George W. Bush
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Bobby Jindal is Indian and brown but he likes to believe he's neither. Americans, who like to project him as the next GOP President, would do well to remind themselves that he's a consumate opportunist.
Thursday, March 5, 2009
For the Totally Jaded Tourist: Slumdog Tourism
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Slumdog Millionaire has won over audiences with its fairytale-in-a-Mumbai-slum storyline, but the British film has opened up a heated debate about the exploitation of slums.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Pontiac: A Corporate Murder
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The style-challenged marketers at GM have killed a once iconic American car by ignoring every warning sign on the roads.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
America's Most Desperate: Why 35.5 Million People Are Going Hungry
The recession is taking a heavy toll on the US, with over 35 million people finding it difficult to put food on the table. Even as the country spends billions on the Pentagon's silver bullets, the number of Americans going hungry, sometimes for days, is rising.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Trick or Treaty?
The American propensity for tearing up treaties is standing in the way of further arms reduction talks.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Why is Britain Tolerating David Miliband?
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The British foreign secretary is stumbling from one diplomatic disaster to another. If London wants to remain a nation with influence abroad, it should revoke his passport.
Friday, January 2, 2009
The Days of the Assassin are Back
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Terrorism is not a modern phenomenon. It is perhaps as old as organized society and can definitively be traced to at least 1 AD. What makes modern terror so difficult to stamp out is the fact that the perpetrators behave as if they have religious sanction.