Bezos in Space
A dream of space Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, is spending a billion dollars each year on a project to bring thousands of people into space in th...
Category: Ideas
Nutraceuticals
Paul Noth, New Yorker magazine
Evaluation of a “Critical Mass” agreement on agriculture
The stalemate in Geneva on the December 2013 Bali Agreement concerning both Trade Faciliation and agriculture subsidies has revived some interest ...
They never talk about trade
The trade and investment policies of the two main political parties in Australia have flip-flopped in chorus over the years so they hardly ever figure ...
Governed by the gutless?
Alan Beattie’s new booklet “Who’s in Charge Here” (Amazon) is an amusing, accurate, accessible account of the current mess in global financial and trad...
A bearish view of global governance
If there were a ratings agency for the credibility of “global governance” institutions, the WTO’s would have been downgraded to a “B” at best[1] aft...
The unanswered question about 9–11
Robert Fisk is such a rewarding historian of international policy because his contacts are so broad and his experience is so long and because he wri...