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Today’s Financial Times offers commentary by Susan Aaronson, a scholar who analyzes the murky relationships between trade and human rights. In it she poses the question: if both candidates are pro-trade, what else will they do with their policies? Around the world, the press has portrayed the 2008 US presidential election as a choice between […]
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Joshua M. Bernstein of Gourmet recently did a Q&A with Charles Bamforth, touching on something that I find to be among the “funny-because-it’s-true” characteristics of wine and beer. JMB: How else do wine makers and brewers differ? CB: Brewers tend to use unappealing terms like catty, grainy and burnt, while wine guys tend to use […]
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This week: Stinky, stinky, 12-year-old Darwin Charles Darwin, at the age of 12, wrote several letters into a ‘Memorandum book’ while on vacation from school. He was staying at his family home in Shrewsbury, and apparently not bathing much. Ah, the days when washing was a chore! Please be advised that the spelling mistakes and […]
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In recent days Barack Obama has sought to establish bluer water between himself and John McCain over Iraq. Did he succeed? Yes, he has succeeded to a degree. He has made it clear that Afghanistan will be the first front in his revised war on terror. By wrapping up Iraq quickly – most US brigades, […]
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Today: Merchant marine milk cows keep the corrupting Chinese commerce coming! As well, as a colonies on the North American mainland and in the Caribbean, Sweden established a foothold in China at Canton in the eighteenth century. The Swedish East India Company, founded in 1732 to capture the eastern end of trade, was highly successful […]
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GuideMoscow.com caught an earlier post of ours about David Foglesong’s book, and noted the cartoon. Foglesong writes of a legacy of American efforts to re-make Russia in its image, and his book includes a number of hilarious (if scary) political cartoons from the late 19th and early 20th Century. Yes, friends, themes include Satan, the […]
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Still Overdue, Still Undone In our book, Darfur and the Crime of Genocide, we analyze evidence that goes well beyond the new charges filed against Sudanese President Al Bashir by the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.The evidence is largely developed from an important but neglected U.S. State Department interview based survey of more than […]
Read MoreYep. There it is. North American multinationals selling less and less beer, with Europe and the rest of the world stealing the share. This comes from Teresa da Silva Lopes’ Global Brands, a handy piece of business history on alcohol branding. With the InBev purchase, how far further will that North America bar shrink?
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