Dive into the archives.
- Victim of bureaucratic jealousy
Canada shows us a brilliant example of how bureaucratic turf wars on the homefront can negatively impact the war effort: Due to interdepartmental jealousies, the Department of National Defence has decided to disband the Strategic Advisory Team-Afghanistan. Since 2005 this unique Canadian Forces initiative — outside of the jurisdiction of ISAF or OEF — has [...]
- Politics and the Olympics in the 20th century
Check out this audio slideshow of how politics has overshadowed past Olympics.
- Venezuela Update
As if Venezuela couldn’t get any crazier with Chavez engaging in battles of insults with the King of Spain and President of Colombia, everyone’s favorite buffoon-president is now signing oil production agreements with Belarus of all places (showing once again that birds of a feather flock together). Belarus and several Latin American countries are [...]
- Fascists v.s. Fascists
A friend currently studying at Oxford University attended a recent controversial debate at the Oxford Union between Holocaust denier David Irving and British National Party leader Nick Griffin, who discussed free speech.
What a fiasco tonight was at the Oxford Union. In my four years as member of the Union, I have never experienced anything quite [...]
- Traditional Japan, or just traditional politics?
Robert C. Angel gave a great rundown on how Japanese political scandals are traditionally played out on his Japan Considered Podcast.
He is speaking in reference to the Moriya scandal that is going on right now. Listen to the excerpt below. Text transcript here
I can here the collective derisive snort of a million raging gaijin.
