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Time To Junk Internationalism?
2008-05-19 10:35:00 Superb commenter James Schipper takes on internationalism and suggests that nationalism is better for workers in this most interesting comment from the comments section of a recent post. My comments follow. I will say that I have a problem with nationalism in general and especially with the sound of the term "national socialism" for obvious reasons. Nationalism leads inevitably to racism, it seems.But following pure internationalist logic, we are obligated to completely open borders. If you go over to leftwing and liberal pro-immigrant sites and prod them a bit, you often find that they actually do believe in Open Borders for the US.That would mean that at some point, 1/3 of the world would be here, and 1/2 of Mexico (since 1/3 of the world and 1/2 of Mexico wants to come to the US). I argue that this would be a disaster for this country for many reasons. For one thing, we would become some kind of Calcutta West. For the environment, it would be a complete catastrophe.At least at th...
By: Robert Lindsay
Europe In The Light of Resurgent Russia
2007-10-08 09:00:00 The Kosovo Conflict of the mid-1990s and the expansion of NATO to Eastern Europe (former Russian ‘Sphere of Influence’) acted as a political and military alarm bell for Russia. The collapse fo the Soviet Union led many western pro-democracy political analysts to believe that Russia would be a prosperity path to be a global economic ...
By: Aby The Liberal
World Government - Solution To World Peace?
2007-10-03 07:17:00 The human quest for peace is as unending as the human desire for war, evident as both diplomacy and warfare coexisted through the ages. However it is only after the massive loss of lives in the two World Wars and the advent of destructive atomic weapons, did humans come to the realisation that wars will ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Effectiveness of Diplomacy In Real World Politics
2007-09-29 09:46:00 As an international political site, we have often been accosted by peace lovers for our in-depth dealings with military issues including comparison of nuclear and conventional military strengths among rivals. The intentions of most of them for such dissent are entirely honest and for good reasons, after all who wouldn’t want a peaceful world where ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Russian Oil Games In The Arctic Shelf
2007-08-04 13:10:00 Russia, which has been claiming the Arctic region since the last few months, made a strategic move by having scientists plant the Russian flag 4200m below the North Pole ice bed (August 2, 207). This act follows several other decisive anti-West moves of the Vladimir Putin government in the past few months. It also signifies ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Banning FGM - Cultural Imperialism or Protecting Rights?
2007-07-13 20:22:00 We often come across news and hear of domestic abuses, sexual harassment and many other kinds of targeted crimes against women and children. There is one kind of abuse quite unheard of in the western world, which surpasses in cruelty and brutality all the abuses mentioned above. It is termed Female Genital Mutilation, FGM for ...
By: Aby The Liberal
India As An Economic Superpower
2007-07-12 20:51:00 In the last few years the world has seen a decline in the influence of United States as a global superpower, particularly in Europe and East Asia. The developments after the collapse of Soviet Union and the Gulf War in 2001, led the world to a heightened state of paranoia against the perceived US imperialism, ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Europe?s Hatred for America - Imaginary or Real?
2007-07-08 19:40:00 It has become a popular belief among a lot of nationalist (or conservative) Americans that Europeans hate Americans. The idea is probably fuelled by the British sentiments against the invasion of Iraq, the refusal of France and Germany to ally with US during the Iraq war, Italy?s strictness Americans who violate national laws with disregard ...
By: Aby The Liberal
India vs China on Military Strength - Conventional and Nuclear
2007-07-05 21:29:00 As two rising Asian powers, India and China are often predicted by analysts to be the future global superpowers based on their economic boom with double digit GDP growths and rising politico-social influence in the third world since the last few years. In the myriad economic and political analyses, often overlooked is the military ...
By: Aby The Liberal
US vs Russia vs China - Nuclear Warhead Stockpiles
2007-06-26 20:29:00 Nuclear weapons have become a political tool rather than military bomb, in this part of the 21st century. Russia continues to be the leader in the size of nuclear warhead stockpile and delivery capabilities. United States of America comes at a close second, followed at a distance by People’s Republic of China. All these countries ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Europe vs USA - Lifestyle
2007-06-22 21:56:00 This is a part of the series called America which discusses why the world dislikes USA so much as opposed to Europe (which is highly regarded). Both Europe and United States have stable economic and political conditions, freedom, military strength, scientific developments and the likes of a civilised modern world. Here follows a brief comparison ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Goodbye?Mister Blair!
2007-06-21 18:14:00 It is always a prudent move to step down at the peak of your career, especially when the road slopes downwards. The Prime Minister of UK, Mr Tony Blair followed the path which has often been trodden upon by celebrities and sports persons when he decided to resign from his position on June 27, 2007. ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Are Americans Stupid? - Statistics, Studies and Research
2007-06-09 19:04:00 We made a couple of posts concerning people’s perception of Americans around the world and the things American tourists do to enforce that perception. Now we come to the next part; are there any statistical data that gives any indication in favour of the world perception of Americans? The answer is yes, there is and ...
By: Aby The Liberal
Swastika - Democratically Nazi or Sacred?
2007-06-07 22:09:00 Sometimes people question us about the image on the blog home page which depicts the Swastika. The questions range from harmless, honest ones like “Why do you have Swastika on this site” or”Are you a neo-Nazi?” to abusive ones with expletives. We have taken all of them in our strides and replying the honest and ...
By: Aby The Liberal
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