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» 2008Oct 9, 2008
On 18 December last year, a week before Christmas, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Iraq, where she visited a Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kirkuk and then went on to Baghdad. That evening, she had a …
Tagged: iraq war, hero, bush administration, bob woodward, condoleezza rice, international affairs, nuri al maliki, david patraeus, rya crocker, the war within
Oct 9, 2008
One of my favourite trade union banners reads simply "ETU Says No". It was first waved in 1998 during the first battle against power privatisation in NSW but has been a regular fixture at rallies since. From …
Tagged: global warming, climate change, activism, hero, peter lewis, robert reich, supercapitalism, global footprint, break through, ted nordhaus, garnaut review, michael shellenberger
Oct 9, 2008
Americans are funny people. Bill Cosby, for example. But there is also a sinister side to their amusing nature. Adam Sandler, for example. But the complexities of the USA go beyond simple comedy. The United States of …
Tagged: john mccain, barack obama, united states, hero, satire, adam sandler, uncle sam, ben pobjie, wall street crisis, bill crosby
Oct 9, 2008
Tagged: commonwealth, cartoon, peter broelman, bank west
Oct 8, 2008
Americans are funny people. Bill Cosby, for example. But there is also a sinister side to their amusing nature. Adam Sandler, for example. But the complexities of the USA go beyond simple comedy. The United States of …
Tagged: john mccain, barack obama, united states, hero, satire, adam sandler, uncle sam, ben pobjie, wall street crisis, bill crosby
Oct 8, 2008
Around this time last year, Gordon Brown was facing the first economic challenge of his premiership: trying to fend off the collapse of the Northern Rock bank. The episode saw the first run on a British bank for nearly …
Tagged: uk, featured, royal bank of scotland, gordon brown, hbos, bailout, business and consumerism, uk bailout, nationalise banks, tim soutphommasane, financial socialism
Oct 8, 2008
If securitised US sub-primes had not emerged as the weak link in the global financial system, some other financial product or market would have. Eventually, the underpricing of risk had to collide with innate human …
Tagged: hero, alan greenspan, federal reserve bank, bailout, business and consumerism, wall street crisis, wall st crisis
Oct 8, 2008
At the beginning of this week I rated the Reserve Bank of Australia, under its saturnine head Glenn Stevens, one of the best performing central banks in the world. Australia, it seemed, would be able to ride out the …
Tagged: hero, interest rates, recession, consumer confidence, business and consumerism, ben eltham, glenn stevens
Oct 7, 2008
After months of turmoil, scandal and volatility, the Centenary rugby league season is now over and the difficulties both on and off the field for the Melbourne Storm have ended in the most unfortunate way — a …
Tagged: drugs in sport, rugby league, featured, nrl, civil society, blogwatch
Oct 7, 2008
It may surprise you to hear this, but Fidel Castro is not the most popular person in Cuba. Nor is Raul Castro, for that matter, or Hugo Chávez. And nor are any of the members of the Cuban baseball team, even though …
Tagged: travel, cuba, featured, havana, international affairs, dan fitzgerald, jiniterismo