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Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard

Carl von Linne, better known as Linnaeus. Look at those pointy shoes! Today: Merchant marine milk cows keep the corrupting Chinese commerce coming! As well, as a colonies on the North American mainland...

Neil Kent | 17 Jul 2008

A Legacy of Russophobia

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...

17 Jul 2008

Darfur Justice: 5 Years Later

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...

John Hagan, Wenona Rymond-Richmond | 16 Jul 2008

Graph of Global Beer Sales

Yep. 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...

16 Jul 2008

A Global Case of Beer

Or is it A Case of Global Beer? So InBev, the giant Belgian brewing conglomerate, is buying Anheuser Busch. What does that mean for both companies? It can be hard to fathom for the average beer drinker,...

Teresa da Silva Lopes | 15 Jul 2008

Omar Hassan al-Bashir Charged with Genocide

Luis Moreno-Ocampo, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has filed a request for an arrest warrant for President of Sudan Omar Hassan al-Bashir. From the New York Times: ‘Announcing the...

14 Jul 2008

Obama at the Gate

Should Barack Obama deliver a speech at Berlin’s iconic Branderburg Gate (that’s Brandenburger Tor auf deutsch)? Time Magazine identifies two moments in US Presidential history as iconic as...

14 Jul 2008

Darwin Letter Friday

You can do it, Chas! Charles Darwin wanted what many academics still strive for: to get published! It was difficult for other reasons, in his case. Murray, the publisher, might reject a paper that runs...

11 Jul 2008

Today is the Anniversary of the Scopes “Monkey” Trial

July 10, 1925: jury selection begins on Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan’s famous trial in Dayton, Tennessee on the teaching of evolution in schools. The story is a little more complicated...

10 Jul 2008

Global Trade Governance Not So Global

This week’s lead story in The Economist addresses what folks have suspected for a while — a lot of the institutions that are supposed to promote all sorts of good things like trade, good economic...

9 Jul 2008

Neil Kent’s Swedish History Smorgasboard

Those Unhealthy Swedes… wait, what? Sweden is today one of the healthiest countries in which to live and has some the world’s highest rates of human longevity. However, this was not always...

Neil Kent | 9 Jul 2008

Tim Lynch – Stateside

After Bush author Timothy Lynch will be here in the US soon. Come hear him speak, tune in to KQED on July 15, or catch the archive at the Forum link below! [Update] Listen to the Forum broadcast here...

8 Jul 2008