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Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2009
The reasoning for the award, such as it is, can be found here. It’s quite odd. I really don’t think Obama has achieved much at all internationally. Probably it’s for not being George W. Bush. There’s a paradox here. On [...]
Posted in International, Politics, USA | Tagged America, barack obama, George W. Bush, Nobel Peace Prize, United States politics | 96 Responses
G20: historic?
By Mark Bahnisch on April 4, 2009
It seems as if the G20 Summit did enough to give equity markets a rare moment of euphoria – as has become common during the Global Financial Crisis, “markets” get all excited whenever there’s more regulation and government takes on [...]
Posted in China, Consumerism, Economics, Europe, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged America, barack obama, Economics, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, ideology, Kevin Rudd, London, summit | 27 Responses
Open G20 thread
By Kim on March 31, 2009
As I’ve been implying, coverage of the preliminaries of the G20 summit has been distorted through the lens of domestic politics – of the most trivial kind. ABC tv news, tonight, for instance, was obsessed by whether Kevin Rudd’s decision [...]
Posted in China, Economics, Europe, International, Markets, Media, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged abc, Amartya Sen, America, Angela Merkel, barack obama, China, David Miliband, Economics, G20, GFC, global financial crisis, gordon brown, ideology, income inequality, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, London, news, social market, Sociology, sub prime mortgage, summit | 17 Responses
Open Obama Inauguration thread
By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2009
If you’re staying up to watch Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America, Crikey has a good guide to coverage and commentary on tv, live streaming, live blogging and twitter. Locally, Hoyden About Town is [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Blogging, Economics, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, International, Iraq, Media, Middle East, Nationalism, Politics, The Web, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, America, Australia, barack obama, coverage, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, global financial crisis, global politics, healthcare, inaugural address, inauguration, Iraq, live blogging, Martin Luther King, Robert Gates, US alliance, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 93 Responses
The Obama inauguration: some interesting links
By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009
There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]
Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses