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Black Friday is just like Brit’s Boxing Day
America’s busiest shopping day is in full swing today as traditional Black Friday sales hit streets across the country. The exciting shopping season began as early as 4am
By Emma Munbodh | Notebook | Friday, 23 November 2012 at 2:22 pm
Noncommital? Pakistan’s War on Terror
A year after the US attack that saw Osama bin Laden killed, efforts to crush the remnants of al-Qa’ida are at a pivotal stage.
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 4 July 2012 at 2:00 am
Stiglitz: the full transcript
There’s some interesting stuff in there. Joseph Stiglitz says that the Vickers reforms to ringfence retail banking pobably don’t go far enough. He proposes a theory on why Germany practices left-wing economics at home but right-wing economics abroad (there’s a soldiarity gulf). He also explains why China can combine high growth with high inequality.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Monday, 2 July 2012 at 11:54 am
China-US trade wars are an eerie Charybdis of despair
The pace of China’s unprecedented economic growth has allowed the Chinese to broaden their horizons in regional and international affairs, much to the annoyance of its great western rival the US, but they are still under criticism for ‘unfair’ trade regulations. What gives?
By Mohammad I. Aslam | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Tuesday, 12 June 2012 at 4:40 am
Obama’s Drone Wars strain the liberal principles he espoused in 2008
Clara Cullen thinks Obama’s drone strategy is a betrayal of all who supported him. In turn, the silence of all those who voted for “hope” and “change” is worrying; it suggests that the US liberal electorate would rather support Obama, who they perceive as a lesser political evil than his Republican adversaries, than actually questioning the political hypocrisy his foreign policy entails.
By Clara Cullen | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 8 June 2012 at 3:57 am
Do, do run, Ron. Run. Do, do run, Ron
Is Ron Paul betraying the movement he built?
By Stephen Foley | The Foreign Desk, iPolitics | Wednesday, 30 May 2012 at 3:22 pm
Barack Obama’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel
Barack Obama has taken pandering to the Israeli lobby to shameful new levels. In a frankly shocking video, even by US standards, in what I can only describe as one the most cynical pieces of electioneering I have witnessed in my lifetime, Obama’s team has released a video re-affirming the USA’s special relationship with Zionism, and their unwavering commitment to supporting a state which draws legitimate comparisons to South Africa under apartheid.
By Richard Sudan | Notebook | Thursday, 26 January 2012 at 12:01 am
What the frack? It’s damaging water supplies and causing earthquakes – so why is the Environmental Protection Agency so slow to act?
The rural town of Dimcock, Pennsylvania, in the US, rests in the rolling hills in Susquehanna County. It used to be picturesque, but today it boasts more blight than Appalachian charm.
By Katherine Rowland | Notebook | Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 12:30 pm
Avoiding a US veto on a Palestinian state
So it’s official. The Palestinians are going to the UN Security Council next week to seek full membership of the United Nations for a Palestinian state.
They know they will face a US veto and will have to take their case to the UN General Assembly which cannot grant statehood. The 193-nation General Assembly would have [...]
By Anne Penketh | The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 15 September 2011 at 11:35 pm
The big economic picture
The US and Germany have more or less recovered the ground lost since the crash. France is almost there. But Italy, Japan and, of course, the UK are still between 4 and 5 per cent off where we were a full three years ago in terms of output.
By Ben Chu | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Wednesday, 31 August 2011 at 12:30 pm
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