With all the recent buzz on the Internet and elsewhere about Google’s impending pull-out from China, much mention has been made of the censored content that Google.cn presents to users in China. Control of information is fundamental to totalitarian control of people. For that reason, Google.cn could not present, for example, images of the 1989 […]
Every summit is a success. Some are more successful than others. That, apparently, is the official line on every major summit that happens — G8, G20, Copenhagen, and others. I heard that at a meeting earlier this week. No matter how much, or how little, gets accomplished at each of these summits, they are officially […]
There are some people who like war. It’s not the soldiers. It’s not the generals — at least not the ones who’ve been on the line, in the thick of things. The people who want war are those who are full of bravado but don’t know any better, those who stand to gain power, and […]
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