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By Kim on April 12, 2010
Sheesh, election years can be depressing some times. If it’s not having the green lycra clad form of Action Man Abbott on the tv screen for 9 days in a row, or craven policy reversals on brown people in boats, [...]
Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Arkansas, asylum seekers, Bill Clinton, Julia Gillard, labor party, myschool, NAPLAN, national tests, New Labour, parents, school education, strikebreakers, teachers unions, Tony Abbott, triangulation, unions, wedge politics |
By Kim on October 30, 2008
So, the netroots thing has its role to play in inspiring enthusiasm and turnout, combating stoopid talking points, etc, etc, but what future for the liberal/left blogosphere in the States in the event of an Obama win? Michael Bérubé recalls [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections | Tagged barack obama, Bill Clinton, blogosphere, Clinton administration, left, liberals, Michael Bérubé, netroots, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 9, 2008
Iceland may be a barometer for what’s changing in the world economy. It was only very recently that the Milton Friedman fan club was hailing Iceland as a “Nordic Tiger”, lauding its flat taxes and praising its “economic freedom”. “Economic [...]
Posted in Activism, Consumerism, Culture, Economics, Ethics, International, Markets, Media, Politics, Poverty, Sociology, USA | Tagged alan greenspan, ALP, Andrew Crook, banks, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Capitalism, credit crisis, credit crunch, deregulation, economic crisis, economic policy, federal reserve, financial meltdown, financialisation, globalisation, gordon brown, Guy Rundle, Iceland, interest rates, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liquidity crisis, Mark Davis, Milton Friedman, neo-liberalism, political economy, politics & government, recession, regulation, social democracy, socialism, Sociology, stock markets, subprime mortgages, TARP, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street, world economy |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 19, 2008
As a supplement to earlier posts on the sociology of the global financial crisis from Kim and dk.au, I thought I’d note something very interesting written by Henry Farrell at Crooked Timber. Farrell traces the shift in paradigm in the [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Ben bernanke, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, City of London, credit crisis, economic sociology, financial crisis, financial markets, financial regulation, globalisation, gordon brown, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, Jon Cruddas, Labour, neoliberalism, New Labour, political economy, political sociology, Robert Skidelsky, social democracy, sociology of knowledge, sociology of science, sub prime crisis, US election 2008, us treasury, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
As a bit of a follow up to Mark’s post on the latest travails of the Democratic campaign, here’s a link to a very interesting article which includes interviews with both Obama and McCain’s campaign managers. My take? Obama (and [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on August 28, 2008
Kevin Rudd’s address to the National Press Club yesterday (you can read it here) was notable as much for what he didn’t say as for what he did. I’d be very surprised indeed if the expectation that he would spell [...]
Posted in Education, Media, Politics | Tagged AEU, ALP, Bill Clinton, education revolution, Julia Gillard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, league tables, media narrative, narrative, national press club, National Press Club address, performance pay, political narrative, schooling, teachers unions |
By Kim on August 23, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/joebidenlrg.jpg" align=left Looks like Senator Joe Biden of Delaware will be Obama’s pick for Vice-President. The selection of the long serving Senator – who’s been a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the past himself – will be seen [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Joseph Biden, Kathleen Sibelius, Tim Kaine, USA Election 2008, Vice Presidential nomination, Vice Presidential selection, VP |
By Kim on August 18, 2008
Joan Walsh at Salon asks whether America is “now officially a Christian nation”. She’s thinking of this – Obama’s appearance along with John McCain at Pastor Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church: One of the candidates for president strolled onto the stage [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Industrial Relations, Poverty, Religion, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, church and state, evangelicals, faith and politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John McCain, neoliberal economics, Robert Reich, social democracy, Sociology, theocracy, US election 2004, US election 2008 |
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