2008 Newsnotes

Remarks on the news, made over the years.  Most of it has stood the test of time quite well.

For topics, click on the year number. Or on the month name to see what I was saying that month.

February

• Reform Without Reason [Free Markets]
• Turning tides [US Decline and China’s Rise]
• Market probity for alley-cats.
• Triple-A junk.
• Human Rights [Not Just For Journalists and Lawyers]
• Flashman Extinguished

March

• Fidel and Cuba: a success story
• Putin / Medvediev – the West’s best friends
• Kosovo: Break Every Rule
• Beijing Olympics
• Buckley: Conservative Nihilist [US Right]

April

• Tibet’s race riots – the Losers of Lhasa
• Was Kublai Khan a Chinese Emperor?
• Fighting to the Last Tibetan
• Boeing going down
• Never mind the multi-billion dollar frauds, let’s agonise about sex [US Politics]

May

• Nepal votes ‘red’
• Italy votes ‘blue’
• ‘Feed the Rich’ – bad debts and hungry people
• Chinese bloggers scorn Western values

June

• Tax-Evasion Leeches
• What the 1960s did for us
• Is Burma necessary?
• Darfur Wages War
• Nepal in flux
• Shaken but solid [Chinese Earthquake]
• Einstein’s Views [On Religion]
• Web Liberation fails again
• Legalising Chimeras [Human Chimeras]

July-August

• Markets are liars
• Back To The Soil?
• China Still Rising
• The Twilight of the Anglos
• Democracy and War

September

• China Rising [Olympics]
• Olympic Fates
• Missionary Positions at Beijing 2008 [BBC Reporting]
• China again proud of itself
• Georgia – the West screws up [South Ossetia War]
• Chinese Leaders [Xi Jinping]
• Killer instincts [Teenage Violence in Britain]

October

• Post-New Labour
• Barking at China – and failing to bite
• The End of an Hegemony [US Decline]
• Backwoodswoman for All-American Vices [Sarah Palin]
• Obama and US Racism
• Feed the Rich [Banking]
• Update on Nepal
• Large Hadron Collider

November

• Society Used To Exist
• Greenspan and the Decline of the West
• Money and Gun-Power
• China Seeks More Equality
• December
• Army of Islam, Army of Shiva
• Thailand breaks the rules.
• Afghans
• Yielding to China [About Tibet]
• Somalia [Piracy]
• The United States of Uncertainty [Obama]
• NATO Halts Its ‘March To The East’
• Superorganisms [Ant Nests and Human Religions]

Comments I have made in a magazine called Labour & Trade Union Review, now Labour Affairs.

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