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Wednesday Night #1380
August 13, 2008, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1380

Wednesday Night’s West Wing holds its fifth session August 13th. Alexandra and James have set up a beautiful new w ...

West Wing of Wednesday Night #5
August 13, 2008, 1 Comment

More from our West Wing The “Wednesday Night Salon” series – west coast edition is going for its fifth ...

China, Beijing Olympics II
August 7, 2008, 1 Comment

China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet Official website The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games The Olympic Embl ...

India: Hindus & Muslims
August 7, 2008, Comments Off on India: Hindus & Muslims

7 August 2008 Violence runs through this ‘stable’ India, built on poverty and injustice The country the west ...

WEDNESDAY NIGHT #1379
August 6, 2008, 2 Comments

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated ret ...

Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots
August 6, 2008, Comments Off on Arctic Map shows dispute hotspots

Enlarged map and notes See also Arctic and Antarctic (BBC) British scientists say they have drawn up the first detailed ...

Commodities and co-dependency
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Commodities and co-dependency

This thoughtful piece by Kenneth Rogoff was written in 2005. In light of the collapse of the Doha round, it bears readin ...

Moscow to seize grain export controls
July 31, 2008, Comments Off on Moscow to seize grain export controls

July 31, 2008 (FT) Russia plans to form a state grain trading company to control up to half of the country’s cereal ex ...

Zimbabwe must fight for itself, David Jones
July 31, 2008, 1 Comment

Zimbabwe Must Fight for Itself David Jones, Citizen Special It is time to tell some truth — cruel truth. Words, ev ...

Wednesday Night #1378
July 30, 2008, 3 Comments

See photos and more Starting this Wednesday Night on a different note (!), our very special diva, Susanna Eyton-Jones, a ...

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