Catching up is about radically raising growth in the countries now at the bottom…This book sets out an [aid] agenda for the G8 that would be effective. (The Bottom Billion, pages 12 and 13) Sir Paul Collier, Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and Fellow of the British Academy (FBA) is a British development economist […]
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)
The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier (2007)
05 Jan 2024 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, history of economic thought, war and peace Tags: Africa
Week 278 – The Siege of Bastogne Begins – WW2 – December 23, 1944
31 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: World War II
Turmoil in Russia – The Assassination of Rasputin I THE GREAT WAR Week 127
29 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Why was Napoleon so Successful?
26 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Napoleonic wars
They Did Not Pass – The Battle Of Verdun Ends I THE GREAT WAR Week 126
22 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Detours
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, international economics, International law, transport economics, war and peace Tags: war against terror
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Another NYT writer resigns in lieu of being fired
20 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of media and culture, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
Another writer for the New York Times, one who had accrued numerous accolades, resigned after having signed her second petition staking out a political position. As the NYT itself reported below, its Magazine writer Jazmine Hughes decided to resign from the paper after discussions with management. (She would have been fired had she not left.) […]
Another NYT writer resigns in lieu of being fired
Bill Maher on changing boundaries and the tenacity of Israel
17 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, television, TV shows, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, free speech, Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, political correctness, regressive left, war against terror
In Bill Maher’s monologue this week, he gets serious about the war, going back in history and showing how the ethnic constitution of countries change drastically over time, how colonization is pervasive, and how ethnic cleansing has affected the Jews more than any other people (see his enlightening chart at 2:25). Those who are pro-Palestinian […]
Bill Maher on changing boundaries and the tenacity of Israel
The Mesopotamian Front Awakens – Joseph Joffre Gets Sacked I THE GREAT W…
15 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
The University of Chicago’s Students for Justice in Palestine justify the terrorism and barbarity of Hamas on October 7, tout other forms of antisemitism
12 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, International law, law and economics, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, useful idiots, war against terror, West Bank
The campus climate of hate and divisiveness is not limited to MIT, Harvard, Princeton, or Columbia; it’s now metastasized to the University of Chicago. It’s largely promoted by the Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and UChicago United for Palestine (UCUP), who are constantly demonstrating on campus and have had its members arrested for trespassing […]
The University of Chicago’s Students for Justice in Palestine justify the terrorism and barbarity of Hamas on October 7, tout other forms of antisemitism
Israel still has strict gun laws for private citizens
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, gun control, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts (Documentary)
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, World War I
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror, West Bank
The failure of Western “Liberals and Leftists” to hold the Arabs to the same moral and ethical standards as Israel is a “example of old colonialist and racist habits. They don’t see in the Arabs moral equals.” – Michael Walzer (1982) I think that most of the arguing and fighting over land and religion should […]
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
BREAKING: Green Party to Oppress Woman, Gays and Trans
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
It’s hard to believe I know, but what other conclusion can be made based on what Green MP (and superstar) Chloe Swarbrick said the other day at the “Pro-Palestine” rally in Auckland: … after what we’ve witnessed, I want to say strongly, clearly and vehemently, the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand stands for a […]
BREAKING: Green Party to Oppress Woman, Gays and Trans
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
A very interesting development reported today by Barak Ravid of Axios (in a Twitter thread) shows some further evolution of the relationship between Israel’s security cabinet (an inner team of ministers with grounding in law) and the “war cabinet” that was set up as part of the process of bringing some (former) opposition parties into […]
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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