Archive for 'UK'
London Fourth
Posted on 04. Jul, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead.
London is an odd place for an American to spend the Fourth of July, but the way the schedule worked out this summer, this happened to be the best time for me to make a quick trip. I’ve been putting some ideas together about Anglo-American relations, the decline and fall of great powers and the [...]
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Paul McCartney Compares Global Warming Skeptics to Holocaust Deniers; Says of Obama, ‘I Really Love Him’
Posted on 25. Jun, 2010 by Rusty Weiss.
Seems the only thing gushing more than the BP oil spill these days is the disaster brewing in Paul McCartney's mouth. In an exclusive interview with The Sun, McCartney takes a major swipe at global warming realists, er, deniers, by stating (emphasis ...
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Iran Video, One Year On: The “Neda” Documentaries
Posted on 20. Jun, 2010 by Scott Lucas.
On the anniversary of 25 Khordaad, when Neda Agha Soltan and others were killed amidst mass demonstrations, we re-post two documentaries, the BBC/PBS/Tehran Bureau documentary “An Iranian Martyr” and HBO’s “For Neda”. Watch Rest of “An Iranian Martyr”….
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Gaza Latest: Varied Reactions to Israel’s “Eased” Blockade
Posted on 18. Jun, 2010 by Ali Yenidunya.
Contrasting messages over Gaza: In an interview with the BBC, Syrian President Bashar Assad said that the attack of Israel’s “pyromaniac government” on the Gaza aid flotilla increased the chances of war in the Middle East. However, the Quartet of the US, European Union, the UN, and Russia have welcomed Israel’s decision to ease the blockade on the Gaza [...]
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How Britain Can Stop Eating Toads
Posted on 21. May, 2010 by Walter Russell Mead.
The new British government was still settling into its offices when the 38-year-old Chancellor of the Exchequer (in the US he’d be called the Secretary of the Treasury) George Osborne dashed off to Brussels to announce that Britain would not fight, because it could not win, over new regulations on hedge funds. Meanwhile, the next [...]
