Carl Bloice

So, too, does the rest of people on the planet, at least those of sound mind. The idea that Iraq is not under occupation of another country is ludicrous and as has been pointed out time and time again. Most Iraqi would prefer it if the occupiers departed and left them alone. Of course that’s…

Canadian commentator Jeet Heer described the process succinctly: newspapers abroad “would sometime print scurrilous reports that were too wild and un-sourced for the American press. Thanks to the internet and talk radio, these reports would echo back in the United States and eventually become part of the mainstream discourse.” Heer, a student of political culture,…

One word that has cropped up frequently in the headlines over economic stories recently: “gloom.” And, it was spread all around. “Investors must be feeling a little like Hercules,” read the Lex Column in the Financial Times the other day. “Each time they chop off one of Hydra’s heads threatening the market, another pops up.”…

The current issue is always free to everyone I had turned in my seat to look down the bar but I couldn’t help overhearing the guy behind me when he told his friend, “I don’t want to be mean but I think I am going to buy a foreclosure.” He said there were real deals…

The current issue is always free to everyone When over 2,500 delegates gather at the plush resort town of Davos, Switzerland a week from now, they will have a lot on their plate. They had planned to open the annual meeting of the international elite with discussions of the environment and terrorism but that could…

The current issue is always free to everyone Once again, disturbing statistics have come from the government. Once again, the question being asked is what the figures portend for the country’s overall economy. Once again, as it has been for the startling figures on housing foreclosures, a lot of people are being hurt, and once…

The current issue is always free to everyone In early November, the State Department’s point person for the Horn of Africa was going around saying political changes in Somalia had created a “new opportunity” for ending the civil conflict there. One month later, her boss was in the country’s capital, Mogadishu, pleading with the officials…

The current issue is always free to everyone Weird people must be running the New York Times these days. First, there was the baffling decision to ignore the anti-war demonstration Oct. 27th, when thousands of people across the nation took to the streets, demanding an end to the carnage in Iraq. I wrote to the…