Chavez
Venezuelan Electoral Postmortems (tags)
elections
7/27: Open Letters from China Cyber Activists Against CNN media bias on Urumqi (tags)
Greeting from Hong Kong, China, I am currently at my last week of China-U.S. bi-national solidarity trip and forwarding you the request from influential Chinese cyber activists from Beijing, China call anti-CNN.com and their two open letters against New York Times and the Congress about their China bias/bashing against the recent July 5th riots at Urumqi Separatist Riot That Killed 190 civilians....
Time for a Bad Ideas Bank (tags)
The global economic disaster plunges economics into a legitimation crisis-not yet noticed by the vast majority of the affected. The current financial crisis involves dogmas that markets function best and correct their own mistakes.
Missing Links: An Intellectual Bailout (tags)
The financial crisis has killed the claim that economics deserves to be treated as a science. The measure of a science is its capacity to explain, predict, and prescribe. And most economists not only failed to anticipate the nature and evolution of the catastrophe, but their conflicting recommendations exposed the unreliability of their knowledge.