Duck stars at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis This article first appeared in Gap Year Magazine The Mississippi Blues trail It was the ducks that did it. Even they had their own musical accompaniment: the King Cotton March by John Phillip Sousa, as it happens. Any trip worth remembering will have its own soundtrack that stays […]
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With a mixture of sympathy, schadenfreude and amusement, it seems. Evan Osnos writes in The New Yorker: After several years in which American diplomats have inveighed against Internet censorship in China, the proposals have inspired a bit of snickering. ‘The Great Firewall turns out to be a visionary product; the American government is trying to
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Is it my imagination or is cuddly President Barack Obama picking a fight with China?
No sooner has the world begun to heal after the Bush neocon excesses that led to such bloodshed in the Middle east, than Obama announces a tectonic shift in US imperialist policy.
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This is impressive — and long overdue. Some 700 have been arrested. How many bankers who caused the crisis have been even looked at sternly by the authorities? Madam Miaow says … visit Anna Chen’s website here: Home Anna’s food blog here: http://annacheneats.blogspot.com/
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An illuminating piece from Robert Fisk summing up why Bin Laden was no longer a major influential figure on the world stage and could be dispensed with at last. This paragraph struck me as especially pertinent, raising important questions. But a court would have worried more people than Bin Laden. After all, he might have
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So, Obama finishes his hilarious speech at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by throwing down the head of Osama Bin Laden, saying, ‘Beat that, Donald’. The Mother of All Prizes, Osama Bin Laden, has been killed by Amurkin troops on this royal wedding weekend, ten years after 9/11. Following a massive intelligence effort, he was
