Outside of the 400 blocks or so on Manhattan Island where it functions as a local rag, the The New Yorker is, for many people, about as visible as the Almanach de Gotha, writes Guy Rundle.
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Guy Rundle: Rundle08: It’s the economy stupid
A dictator is the bet of the day
I read somewhere once a learned article by an academic who asserted that people normally were far too optimistic in believing that dictators would soon get their comeuppance and be removed by the good forces of democracy. Which means those of you with any punting money left this afternoon should hop in and back Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe.
Sparrow: Politicians aren’t like us
Here’s three other examples, more-or-less at random, of issues on which the people and their representatives move on entirely different tracks, writes Jeff Sparrow.
George Bush on Iraq: liar or fool?
A new Bush biography suggests the leader of the free world doesn’t know what happened in Iraq – and he doesn’t much care. But he vaguely thinks one of his flunkies somewhere might have some idea.
Morning Market Report
The highlights and lowlights of this morning’s sharemarket activity.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
Will he? Won’t he? There was rumour early in the week that he wouldn’t. But fret not, we now have confirmation from no better source than the White House itself: President Bush will make it to APEC. We cross now to the James S. Brady Briefing Room.
Markets correct, Bush urges calm. Uh oh
There is absolutely nothing more worrying for an investor than seeing a US President telling “The American People” not to panic. Uh oh. This is bad. Dubya didn’t materialise before us and tell us not to panic during last February’s correction, or even last year’s big one.
Iraq latest: Congress votes to withdraw
What the US commentariat are saying about the Iraq interim report.
As support for war ebbs, will Howard be left high and dry?
John Howard might have been a bit slow on the uptake in regard to climate change, but has he also missed the political wind shift over Iraq?
How the Texacutioner discovered his heart
So President Bush has commuted the two-and-a-half year prison term facing Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, calling the sentence “excessive”. Um, is this the same United States, the world leader in incarceration? asks Jeff Sparrow.
