Category: International Relations

New blog has been set up by a bloke who dropped me a mail to inform me. I watched Hilary Andersson’s report on BBC news tonight, and was pretty shell shocked after it. I’m not an aid worker, I’m not a doctor, and I’m definately not well off. So what can I do to help?…

My post on the arms to EU article that appeared in the IHT, caused a bit of a stir. Peter responds here. Dick responds here. Eoin reponds here. DC responds here. It makes me a neocon to say this? I’m not sure if I would agree with that. Perhaps Niall Ferguson just did a good…

Israel never signed the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Israel produces plutonium at Dimona in the Negev desert. This site is off limits to inspectors. Israel bombed Iraq’s nuclear reactor in Osirak in 1981. Pakistani scientist, Abdul Qadeer Khan, sold nuclear wares to Iran, Libya and North Korea. He may have sold nuclear material to other countries.…

Yglesias also has an ongoing discussion about whether WW1 was a preventive war, or not. David Adesnik of Oxblog weighed in and Matthew replied: On the other hand, David says “Germany attacked Russia because the German leadership wanted to divert the working class’ attention away from domestic politics” which sounds like it’s either a joke…

Frank Fukuyama is on Newsnight as I write, it should be available in the BBC archive later tonight.

I spotted this story on Slashdot last week, intersting for the oil debate going on for the last few weeks. Alberta sits atop the biggest petroleum deposit outside the Arabian peninsula – as many as 300 billion recoverable barrels and another trillion-plus barrels that could one day be within reach using new retrieval methods. (By…

Back to this subject again Peter, Frank. Kevin Drum is talking about it again, and I just have to link to it. He pointed to an article in the WP by one Paul Roberts author of “The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World.” Drum agrees with Roberts, noting: My guess…

Foreign Policy popped through the letterbox today, and what a great read it is. Niall Ferguson has the cover story, it is usual Ferguson, interesting nonetheless. Other articles are good too, more on that later.

Nicholas Kristoff with another stirring article on the situation in Sudan. Go read it. Perhaps Americans truly don’t care about the hundreds of thousands of lives at stake – we have other problems, and Darfur is far away. But my hunch is that if we could just meet the victims, we would not be willing…

Peter is having a great time having a bash at George Monbiot and his book, the Age of Consent. He concludes, with some mirth I imagine: That doesn’t alter the fact that Monbiot has written something directly contradicting his sources. At least Jayson Blair could blame booze and coke and Philip Glass had a vivid…