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China's 60th birthday
October 3, 2009, Comments Off on China's 60th birthday

  From the Economist archives, October 4 1969 It’s later than Mao thinks China needs pulling together more urgent ...

China post 2008 Olympics
September 4, 2009, Comments Off on China post 2008 Olympics

Chinese separatists blamed for syringe attack violence Chinese authorities dispatched police in riot gear to disperse pr ...

Wednesday Night #1435
September 2, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1435

The rise and fall of real estate values never ceases to fascinate. John McAfee, founder of the antivirus company has rec ...

Wednesday Night #1427
July 8, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1427

Science and ethics The announcement that British scientists claim to have created human sperm in the laboratory from emb ...

Wednesday Night #1424
June 17, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1424

Update on Hungary Although the member nations of the European Union have benefited enormously from the elimination of ph ...

China: Tiananmen Square
June 4, 2009, Comments Off on China: Tiananmen Square

(CBC Archives) Massacre in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square live reporting from June 4 1989 Jeff Widener: Returning to T ...

Wednesday Night #1422
June 3, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1422

The Fondation universitaire Pierre Arbour  funds students in three disciplines that contribute to Quebec’s econom ...

Afghanistan & Pakistan
April 29, 2009, Comments Off on Afghanistan & Pakistan

(FP Morning Brief) The Pakistani military is fighting to retake the Buner district, just a few dozen miles from Islamaba ...

Darfur – A plan
March 22, 2009, 2 Comments

Human Rights Watch: Crisis in Darfur This was in the works for a long time. They had been waiting for a chance to strike ...

Capitalism and Adam Smith
March 13, 2009, Comments Off on Capitalism and Adam Smith

Despite all [Adam] Smith did to explain and defend the constructive role of the market, he was deeply concerned about th ...