In what will no doubt been seen as one of the critical moments of the Obama presidency, Crikey intern Thomas McIlroy gathers the commentariats’ thought on Obama’s decision to send a further 30,000 troops to Afghanistan.
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Friedman: Why I can’t support the Afghan troop surge
Formerly an avowed supporter of Bush’s “war on terror”, NYT columnist Thomas Friedman explains why he can’t support Obama’s decision yesterday to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
A counter (not capitalist) revolution in Bolivia
The great globalisation revolution was supposed to lead to a united world but one of the most immediate effects is the way its being driven apart, with the fracturing of big nation-states and federations into autonomous regions, writes Guy Rundle.
