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Not exactly what the marketing rep had in mind Is Fifa presiding over the running of a two-tierstyle police state in South Africa? Who on earth allowed them to do this? Every day on the BBC’s world cup commentary we get to hear about the indissoluble relation between football and freedom, how football was so important to [...] Here is a link to Roger Cohen’s op-ed in Tuesday’s NY Times on European Solidarity or lack thereof. Here are a few remarks: I think that while reading the complaints about Greece’s overly generous welfare state that currently abound in the Anglophone and German media (though I am not saying that this is all there is to [...] General Toussaint L'Overture, by Jacob Lawrence, 1986 Why is it taking so long to establish aid supply chains in Haiti? MSF has called the current situation unacceptable and complained about the temporary diversion of supplies from Port-au-Prince, because the US military is apparently prioritizing getting troops on the ground to handle a security situation that [...] Democracy in action? There seem to be two standard pro-ban responses to the mainstream media’s near across the board condemnation of the Swiss vote (as I pointed out in my last post responses from the governing parties in France and Germany were slightly more nuanced). These responses go something along the lines of : 1. [...] The New York Times reports that many of the speeches put into the official congressional record during the legislative debate on health care reform in the US House of Representatives were drafted (either in part or wholly) by lobbyists working for Swiss Drug company Roche. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Genentech, a subsidiary of the Swiss [...] |
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