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LifestreamHere is some flamebait that I think could entice people. As politicians, opportunists and clueless pundits around the globe have been falling over themselves to bless the recently departed Simon Wiesenthal, there are those that tell a different story. And it is a story that needs to come out among the onslaught of shallow journalistic [...]
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July 29, 2005 marks the one hundredth year since the birth of Dag Hammarskjöld (wikipedia), arguable one of the most influential Swedes ever and one of the ideologists behind the modern United Nations. I think that the question on everyone’s mind is whether Hammarskjöld’s contributions were really that remarkable or if his fame is rather [...]
Well, up until a couple of months ago, I hadn’t heard the name “Stockholm Spectator.” But all of a sudden it’s a term I see everywhere. So what is the “Stockholm Spectator?” Well, like the Matrix you cannot be told what the Stockholm Spectator (hereby known as “SS”) is, you have to see for yourself. [...]
Ah well, there’s always Argentina. The German government is reportedly blocking the deportation of Nazi war crimes suspects from the U.S. back to Germany to be tried and punished. The German interior ministry has refused to accept the suspects even though the United States already has stripped them of their citizenship because of their World [...]
Barely five years into the 21st century, with a globalized neo-liberal trade regime firmly in place in a world where market economy has become the norm, trade protectionism appears to be fast re-emerging and developing into a new global trade war of complex dimensions. The irony is that this new trade war is being launched [...]
The United Nations General Assembly on Monday elected Swedish diplomat Jan Eliasson as president for the organization’s 60th session, which will open in September.
Eliasson, who currently serves as Swedish ambassador to the United States, will replace Jean Ping, of Gabon.
The Swedish diplomat will take the presidency as the world body will adopt deep reforms proposed [...]
Karen Kwiatkowski ponders the issue of whistleblowers in her latest column …
Whistleblowers in government can learn one thing from the current interest story about former FBI Deputy Director W. Mark Felt. The U.S. government and government-dependent media response is timeless and utterly formulaic.
Predictably, whether under Nixon, Clinton or Bush, those who blow whistles and raise [...]
Magpie points out something fairly interesting …
If you’re like us, you’re finding that the stories in the US press about the French (and now the Dutch) rejection of the European Union constitution are pretty thin in their explanation of why anyone would vote ‘No.’ They do a great job of telling who voted no, but [...]
Haitham Sabbah points to a conservative list of Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. It’s in fact so salivating and worked up that they had to carry no less than twenty honorable mentions in addition. As Sabbah points out, if you haven’t read them already, you should. This is power speaking [...]
Well, as we know, France rejected the constitution and others are sure to follow. Now the question is, could there be something wrong with the people of France or could it in fact be the constitution itself? Are referendums adding or subtracting from democracy? Do we need to rewrite the document or try to peddle [...]
