Category Archives: Politics
Easily Confused (25) Castro Brothers
Castro brothers (innocent): Castro brothers (not innocent):
You want more Surveillance? You can have it.
I just read this: A new CNN/Time … Poll indicates four in ten Americans say they are willing to give up some civil liberties to fight terrorism. Only 38% favor expanding government monitoring of e-mail and cell phones. While this … Continue reading
Easily Confused (23) Orange Revolution
Orange revolution: Orange counter-revolution: What little democratic progress was achieved in Ukraine, the Netherlands are undoing it.
North Korea’s Military Strategy
I have studied a great many wars, but I am not aware of an example where the aggressor state revealed its detailed step-by-step strategy in advance. In public. In a colourful video. North Korea has the courtesy to do so and lays … Continue reading
Grutas Park – a Museum of Falsification of History
Last weekend I was in Druskininkai, in the South of Lithuania, and of course I wanted to visit nearby Grūtas Park (Grūto parkas in Lithuanian), a sculpture park of Soviet monuments and a museum about the Soviet occupation of Lithuania. … Continue reading
Another “Humanitarian Crisis”
I woke up this morning, at 0630 mind you, to the radio news of BBC World Service which included a short item about Amnesty International warning of a “humanitarian crisis” in Greece because of the situation of the refugees there. … Continue reading
Easily Confused, # 15 – UK Foreign Policy
Britain overplaying its hand in the Suez Crisis in 1956: Britain overplaying its hand at a EU summit in 2012:
Easily Confused, # 14 – The Pope
On the left: the representative of an authoritarian regime On the right: the representative of an authoritarian regime
Did you notice the Irony? (# 6) UN Climate Summit
The last UN Climate Change Summit took place in Doha, capital of Qatar. By choosing this venue, did the UN wish to reward Qatar for its energy and environmental policies? Qatar has by far the world’s highest output of CO2 per … Continue reading
Is there an Alternative to Liberalism?
The final project of the second year (of three) of my MA in Philosophy was supposed to give an answer to the question “Is there a serious alternative to liberalism as a political theory?” Here is what I wrote: I. … Continue reading
The Happy Hermit 