Month: July 2013

(Crossposted to European Tribune, in Orange and at my blog) Let me put this bluntly: A good way to think of Larry Summers is to take Paul Krugman, up the arrogance tenfold and deduct 99% of the intelligence. He should never be...

Imagine if you will a country where the government does nothing to prevent “austerity” measures from being imposed. You know, like drastically altering the protections of Social Security, Medicare and – of...

Genetically modified crops are a very complicated issue that are difficult to discuss because the public is mostly clueless about how genetics work. I found myself whipsawed between concern about genetic modification and despair...

There wasn’t much news created during Jackie Calmes and Michael D. Shear’s interview with the president. But I did notice a few tea leaves related to the XL Keystone pipeline. NYT: A couple other quick subjects that...

. The name of this cleric surfaced for his call of the protestors to move towards the October 6 Bridge late at night. Some report just to block this major traffic artery in the heart of Cairo, others reorted to move the...