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By Robert Merkel on July 28, 2010
Courtesy of a Crikey giveaway, I went along to see a screening of The Special Relationship – a study of the political and personal relationship between Tony Blair and Bill Clinton. While it’s a sequel in any strict sense, the [...]
Posted in Europe, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign policy, USA | Tagged Bill Clintion, George W. Bush, Great Britain, Michael Sheen, Peter Morgan, The Special Relationship, Tony Blair, united kingdom |
By Kim on February 22, 2010
Tony Abbott, we’re told, is “real”. Able to mix with the battlers (just like Joe Hockey, another product of the North Shore Jesuit Fathers, and just like yet another, Barnaby Joyce, the accountant in the Akubra), he’s “authentic”. Kevin Rudd [...]
Posted in Federal Elections, Politics | Tagged authenticity, Barnaby Joyce, battlers, Coalition, conservatism, Federal Election 2010, Geoffrey Barker, George W. Bush, ideology, Jesuit Fathers, Joe Hockey, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, North Shore, Policy, private schools, spin, symbolism, Tony Abbott |
By Mark Bahnisch on October 12, 2009
SocProf links to a really fascinating piece on Obama’s Nobel Prize [previous LP discussion here] by Don Waisanen at ThickCulture, riffing on Weber’s characterisation of modernity as disenchantment of the world. It would appear that the Nobel committee at least [...]
Posted in Culture, Imperialism, International, Politics, Sociology, USA, War | Tagged barack obama, Bush administration, disenchantment, George W. Bush, Max Weber, modernity, Nobel Peace Prize, Politics, postmodernism, postmodernity, reenchantment, rhetoric, Sociology |
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 |
By tigtog on January 14, 2009
Open “Man of Steel” thread: the medal, the hype, the other recipients, the legacy etc. The former British prime minister, Tony Blair, and the Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, were also honoured at the ceremony. So, whaddaya reckon? *back to holiday [...]
Posted in Howardia, USA | Tagged ceremony, George W. Bush, John Howard, legacy, medal, Washington |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 12, 2009
With George W. Bush having a little over a week in office left to go of what has been a very long eight years, it’s timely to turn to the question of the long term implications for the political strength [...]
Posted in Climate change, Environment, Ethics, International, Markets, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, anti-science, Australian politics, Climate change, cprs, epistemology, George W. Bush, ideas, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Labor, neoliberalism, political culture, right wing, Rudd government, Science, science studies, short term thinking, Sociology, white paper |
By Mark Bahnisch on January 6, 2009
The former Dear Leader has received his reward – something a little more prestigious than the weirdly named awards from obscure right wing think tanks he spent some time trotting over to America last year to collect. John Howard will [...]
Posted in Howardia, Media, Polls | Tagged ALP, first term, George W. Bush, howard government, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Labor, medal of freedom, Media, polling, possum, psephological analysis, Rudd government |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 3, 2008
It’s hard to know whether to blame the pollies or the press gallery more for the sorry standard of political and economic debate in this country. Did that golden age Paul Kelly used to talk about when Paul Keating had [...]
Posted in Consumerism, Economics, Government, International, Markets, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, behavioural economics, cats claws, collective action, dialectic, economic management, economic sociology, economists, fiscal policy, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, interest rates, Julia Gillard, Julie Bishop, Kevin Rudd, Labor, liberals, LIBOR, lived economy, Malcolm Turnbull, non-farm growth, Paul Krugman, political economy, reserve bank, Rudd government, shared realities, social construction, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, unemployment, us economy |
By Robert Merkel on November 24, 2008
Space policy hasn’t a topic of major interest in American presidential elections since the 1960s. But this year, the planned retirement of the Space Shuttle, and its implications for the Space Coast, meant that both Obama and McCain actually spent [...]
Posted in Science, Technology, USA | Tagged George W. Bush, nasa, planetary society, space, space shuttle, vision for space exploration |
By Mark Bahnisch on November 16, 2008
The G20 Summit has come and gone, and if today’s coverage in the Australian press is any indication, the most important of the tea leaves to be read is whether George W. Bush snubbed Kevin Rudd over the “Kirribilli leak”. [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged Adolf Berle, australian media, barack obama, Bretton Woods, Capitalism, derivatives, FDR, financial markets, financialisation, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, free markets, G20, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, Great Depression, international finance, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, neo-liberalism, New Deal, political economy, regulation, securitisation, Sociology, summit |
By tigtog on November 11, 2008
Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Ethics, Imperialism, Law, Nationalism, Terrorism, USA | Tagged barack obama, George W. Bush, incursions, IOKIYAR, John McCain, musharraf, pakistan, special forces |
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