The dictators are back … and we don’t care
Times, by Robert Kagan - With the fall of communism and the rise of globalisation in the 1990s, the West believed democracy had won. How wrong it was, says the neocon and foreign policy adviser to John McCain. He warns the forces of freedom are losing ground as the autocracies of Russia and China reassert themselves as world powers.
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Undercover investigation into Britain’s battery farming
Independent - Undercover investigators have filmed the ugly reality of egg production at a battery chicken farm supplying the biggest egg producer in the UK.
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Is Trade the Problem?
NY Times - Americans are angry about trade, and a lot of politicians — especially the two Democratic presidential candidates — are eager to capitalize on it. The country would be far better served by a serious, dare we say fact-based, discussion of what is causing the dislocations in American workers’ lives, how much trade is to blame and what government can do to help.
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Germans Discover Direct Democracy
Spiegel - While political parties are losing members and voter turnout is sinking, Germans are discovering direct democracy. Their referendums, such as this Sunday’s on Tempelhof Airport, are beginning to make life difficult for politicians and the business community alike.
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Europe’s Marxist dilemma
Economist - GROUCHO MARX once said that he did not care to belong to a club that accepted people like him as members. The European Union has a slightly different problem. Lots of countries want to get in, even though many of them, and indeed some that have already made it, are not fit to join. They seem to hope that EU membership will work miracles of its own, curing such ills as entrenched corruption, organised crime, judicial ineffectiveness and economic backwardness—all without their having to make painful reforms at home.
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Less free speech
Economist - Tough laws and interfering politicians are shrinking media freedom
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Billion-dollar babies
Economist - WHO rules the world? The most familiar answers to this question are so poisoned by paranoia that it is tempting to dismiss the question itself. If the Jews are so powerful, then why have they had such a dreadful time of things? If the men and women of Davos are so mighty, then why do they keep messing everything up?
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‘Sustainable’ bio-plastic can damage the environment
Guardian - The worldwide effort by supermarkets and industry to replace conventional oil-based plastic with eco-friendly “bioplastics” made from plants is causing environmental problems and consumer confusion, according to a Guardian study.
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