In late April, the Taleban entered the province of Buner from their stronghold in the neighboring province of Swat, which had been “given” to the Taleban by the Pakistani Government. Since Buner is only 70 miles from Islamabad (Pakistan’s capital), alarm bells rang in Washington. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told the US Congress that the…
Last week we wrote* that “Chinese leaders live in a cocoon and are not subjected to any intellectual opposition. Their policies have been very successful during the past few years and now they seem to be drinking too much of their own concoction. Their actions are beginning to reflect this arrogance. This is why China today is…
Editor’s Note: In this new series of articles, we include important or interesting videoclips with brief comments. Our Web Software does not permit embedding of the clips into our articles. So we shall have to be content to include the links to the actual videoclips. Please let us know whether such articles are useful to…
Editor’s Note: In this new series of articles, we include important or interesting articles from various newspapers with brief comments. Please let us know whether such articles are useful to you.This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice…
This week we celebrate the one year anniversary of this Blog. This success is entirely due to the affection from our readers and we wish to thank them humbly and sincerely. Some may think that writing a blog is easy but in reality, it can be a time-consuming, complicated process. The words don’t always flow as…
There are four changes to our Top 10 list since our last monthly update on April 10. “CNBC’s Fast Money – Practice What Your Anchor Dylan Ratigan Preaches” has jumped from 5th place to 1st place. “Jeffrey Sonnenfeld Of Yale & Erin Burnett Of CNBC – Read The China-India Article in Foreign Affairs” – has entered the top…
Editor’s Note: This is an article that expresses our personal opinions about global issues and comments made on Television and in Print. It is NOT intended to provide any investment advice of any type whatsoever. No one should base any investing decisions or conclusions based on anything written in or inferred from this article. Investing is…
Tim Seymour is one of the traders on CNBC’s aggressive trading show “Fast Money”. If you watch this you might find yourself making risky financial moves and end up needing credit card consolidation companies. This is a fun show and we like to watch it, as do many of our readers. That does not prevent us…
On April 27, 2009, Joe Leahy, Mumbai Bureau Chief of the Financial Times (of London), wrote an article titled “Mumbai campaign highlights extremist views”. The abstract of this article (on the main India page of the Newspaper), begins “Regionalism has evolved into a toxic mix of ethnic and religious hatred…”. (see www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9ead04f4-334d-11de-8f1b-00144feabdc0.html ). Frankly, when…
We understand from Hugh Carnegy, Executive Editor of the Financial Times, that FT’s standards of journalistic practice are based on the UK Press Complaints Commission’s code of conduct. This affirmation reminded us of our thesis that each newspaper has a unique culture that gets reflected in the writings of its reporters and that journalistic culture is…