Quote of the day
Serge Halami of Le Monde Diplomatique appropriately compared the recent European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund (“the troika”) intervention in Greece’s affairs to the...
View ArticleEric Hobsbawm (1917-2012) died this morning
One of my many regrets is my failure to take a course with Eric Hobsbawm when I had the chance to do so. It is not just that he was a preeminent historian of the modern era, which he clearly was. His...
View ArticleDumbasses at the Pentagon
Back in the 1950s, they wanted to blow up the moon! The reason: To intimidate the Soviet Union. The Air Force refused to comment on the report.
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