Almost all of the significant stories this past week in international politics focused on the Iranian election. Juan Cole wrote a number of blog posts throughout the week about that election, with the more recent posts up top. Moon of Alabama doesn't buy Dr. Cole's ideas about the election results. I hate to use this particular slogan, but "We report, you decide," seems to be appropriate in this instance. ;) There are a couple of other stories on Afghanistan, the recent Lebanon election, and North Korea.
Middle East:
Afghanistan: Northern Supply Lines Under Attack (Moon of Alabama)
Former GITMO Detainee Speaks Out! YES! I WAS TORTURED! (Crooks & Liars)
Biden: 'Real doubt' about Iran's presidential election (Crooks & Liars)
TYT: Neocons Rooting For Ahmadinejad To Win (Crooks & Liars)
Reza Aslan Takes Chris Matthews to Task for Fear Mongering on Iran's Nuclear Program (Crooks & Liars)
Clashes, Claims of Election Fraud in Iran (Informed Comment)
Terror Free Tomorrow Poll Did not Predict Ahmadinejad Win (Informed Comment)
Post-Election Demonstrations, Violence, Arrests (Informed Comment)
Class v. Culture Wars in Iranian Elections: Rejecting Charges of a North Tehran Fallacy (Informed Comment)
Stealing the Iranian Election (Informed Comment)
Rafsanjani Blasts Ahmadinejad as a Counter-Revolutionary ; Charismatic Rahnevard Attracts Crowds for her Husband Mousavi (Informed Comment)
Ahmadinejad Defends Himself on Iranian Television (Informed Comment)
Tens of Thousands Rally for Mousavi in Tehran (Informed Comment)
Some Dots You May Want To Connect (Moon of Alabama)
More on the Iran Election (Moon of Alabama)
March 14 Faction Wins in Lebanon (Informed Comment)
Asia:
North Korea: We Will Weaponize Nuclear Stockpiles (Crooks & Liars)
As Tensions Between North Korea and U.S. Rise, Clinton Hints At Weapons Interdiction (Crooks & Liars)
Other:
Joe Scarborough Blames Obama's Cairo Speech for Ayatollahs Rigging Iranian Election--But That's a Good Thing ("Joe Scarborough seems to think the ayotollahs rigged the election because Obama's Cairo speech scared them into over reaching and making sure he didn't get credit for the reformers winning in Iran, but if they did, it's a good thing in the long run for the United States. ... If they rigged the election Joe, it's likely for the same reasons the Republicans have rigged elections in the United States...to stay in power. Not because they're worried about American politics.") (Crooks & Liars)
Monday, June 15, 2009
Economics Links (9 June 2009)
Sorry for not posting this here last week.
Angry Bear:
Untitled post on the Unemployment Report
Current Recession vs the 1980-82 Recession
Econbrowser:
DeGlobalization: Transitory or Persistent?
Not a Robust Recovery
James Pethokoukis: "An Improving Job Market"
Output, Employment and Industrial Production in the "1980-82 Recession"
More on Bank Lending Data
High Anxiety (about Interest and Inflation Rates)
Economist's View:
Too Big to be Restructured (The theme of this essay ties in very well with my post on Mikhail Gorbachev's essay from the other day, "We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours.".)
Contributions to the Change in Nonfarm Payroll Employment
Shiller: Home Prices May Keep Falling
Uneven Unemployment Rates
"VAT Time?"
Bank Mergers
"Reducing Inequality: Put the Brakes on Globalization?"
Financial Times:
The ‘part-timezation’ of America
Reuters:
China influence to grow faster than most expect: Soros
Real Property Alpha:
California Home Prices in Ounces of Gold
True/Slant:
NASCAR helped GM down its path of self-destruction ("Better equipped to compete? How ironic, given NASCAR’s role in helping the auto industry race down its path of self-destruction. Major auto companies used NASCAR for years to push cars and trucks with poor fuel economy numbers. The sport, in some ways, came to symbolize America’s embrace of consumption.")
VoxEU:
Why is Japan so heavily affected by the global economic crisis? An analysis based on the Asian international input-output tables
Does climate change affect economic growth?
Washington Post:
Book Review: The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Angry Bear:
Untitled post on the Unemployment Report
Current Recession vs the 1980-82 Recession
Econbrowser:
DeGlobalization: Transitory or Persistent?
Not a Robust Recovery
James Pethokoukis: "An Improving Job Market"
Output, Employment and Industrial Production in the "1980-82 Recession"
More on Bank Lending Data
High Anxiety (about Interest and Inflation Rates)
Economist's View:
Too Big to be Restructured (The theme of this essay ties in very well with my post on Mikhail Gorbachev's essay from the other day, "We Had Our Perestroika. It's High Time for Yours.".)
Contributions to the Change in Nonfarm Payroll Employment
Shiller: Home Prices May Keep Falling
Uneven Unemployment Rates
"VAT Time?"
Bank Mergers
"Reducing Inequality: Put the Brakes on Globalization?"
Financial Times:
The ‘part-timezation’ of America
Reuters:
China influence to grow faster than most expect: Soros
Real Property Alpha:
California Home Prices in Ounces of Gold
True/Slant:
NASCAR helped GM down its path of self-destruction ("Better equipped to compete? How ironic, given NASCAR’s role in helping the auto industry race down its path of self-destruction. Major auto companies used NASCAR for years to push cars and trucks with poor fuel economy numbers. The sport, in some ways, came to symbolize America’s embrace of consumption.")
VoxEU:
Why is Japan so heavily affected by the global economic crisis? An analysis based on the Asian international input-output tables
Does climate change affect economic growth?
Washington Post:
Book Review: The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
International Politics Links (8 June 2009)
I'm starting up a new series of links posts here at J2TM, with international politics being covered every Monday and Business/Economics on Tuesdays.
With regard to international politics, I've separated links into geographical areas (continents) for the most part. For example, in today's post, links are for Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with "Miscellaneous" being for other parts of the world or multiple countries discussed in the post. Within each geographical area, I've tried to alphabetize the countries mentioned. So, once more, for example, with respect to the Middle East the countries are Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Syria.
I invite any of my readers who have legitimate suggestions for links to please add them in the comments.
Europe:
Majid: Dangerous Purities (An interesting guest op-ed essay on the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain. The Moriscos were Spaniards of Muslim descent, either themselves or their parents/grandparents, who had converted from Islam to Christianity. But even their conversion was not enough to satisfy the Catholics, so roughly 300,000 Moriscos, or five percent of the Spanish population, was forced to flee their own country, with most of them dying in the process.)
Biased Election Reporting (On the German results for the European Parliament election.)
Russian Warns Against Relying on Dollar
Middle East:
Obama in the Middle East
Reactions to Obama's Speech
Obama's Speech in Cairo (Juan Cole)
Obama's Speech In Cairo (Moon of Alabama)
Iraqi Prime Minister Warned Obama About Photos: 'Baghdad Will Burn'
It's Only Make-Believe: Bush Policy on Israeli Settlement Freeze Was An 'Understanding'
Obama and Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
OSC: Israeli Press on Obama's Cairo Address
Netanyahu's Problem
UN: Israeli Buffer Zone Eats Up 30 Percent of Gaza's Arable Land
Jewish Settlers Rampage in West Bank
March 14 Faction Wins in Lebanon
OSC: Pakistani Editorialists Respond to Obama
Thousands Flee Mingora in Panic; Army advances toward Kalam; 9 Soldiers Killed, 27 militants
Mysterious 'Chip' is CIA's Latest Weapon Against al-Qaida Targets Hiding in Pakistan's Tribal Belt ("Don't like your neighbor? Drop a chip in his house and the CIA will bomb him.")
Syrian Newspapers on Obama's Arab Tour (OSC)
Asia:
Made in China Means Quality
American Journalists Sentenced In North Korea To 12 Years Labor Camp
Seoul Boosts Forces Against N Korea
Miscellaneous:
Fleischer criticizes Obama’s Cairo speech as being too ‘balanced.’
EU And Lebanon Elections
NYT Finally Runs ‘Editor’s Note’ Correction To Misleading Gitmo Detainee ‘Recidivism’ Story
With regard to international politics, I've separated links into geographical areas (continents) for the most part. For example, in today's post, links are for Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with "Miscellaneous" being for other parts of the world or multiple countries discussed in the post. Within each geographical area, I've tried to alphabetize the countries mentioned. So, once more, for example, with respect to the Middle East the countries are Egypt, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Pakistan, and Syria.
I invite any of my readers who have legitimate suggestions for links to please add them in the comments.
Europe:
Majid: Dangerous Purities (An interesting guest op-ed essay on the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos from Spain. The Moriscos were Spaniards of Muslim descent, either themselves or their parents/grandparents, who had converted from Islam to Christianity. But even their conversion was not enough to satisfy the Catholics, so roughly 300,000 Moriscos, or five percent of the Spanish population, was forced to flee their own country, with most of them dying in the process.)
Biased Election Reporting (On the German results for the European Parliament election.)
Russian Warns Against Relying on Dollar
Middle East:
Obama in the Middle East
Reactions to Obama's Speech
Obama's Speech in Cairo (Juan Cole)
Obama's Speech In Cairo (Moon of Alabama)
Iraqi Prime Minister Warned Obama About Photos: 'Baghdad Will Burn'
It's Only Make-Believe: Bush Policy on Israeli Settlement Freeze Was An 'Understanding'
Obama and Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
OSC: Israeli Press on Obama's Cairo Address
Netanyahu's Problem
UN: Israeli Buffer Zone Eats Up 30 Percent of Gaza's Arable Land
Jewish Settlers Rampage in West Bank
March 14 Faction Wins in Lebanon
OSC: Pakistani Editorialists Respond to Obama
Thousands Flee Mingora in Panic; Army advances toward Kalam; 9 Soldiers Killed, 27 militants
Mysterious 'Chip' is CIA's Latest Weapon Against al-Qaida Targets Hiding in Pakistan's Tribal Belt ("Don't like your neighbor? Drop a chip in his house and the CIA will bomb him.")
Syrian Newspapers on Obama's Arab Tour (OSC)
Asia:
Made in China Means Quality
American Journalists Sentenced In North Korea To 12 Years Labor Camp
Seoul Boosts Forces Against N Korea
Miscellaneous:
Fleischer criticizes Obama’s Cairo speech as being too ‘balanced.’
EU And Lebanon Elections
NYT Finally Runs ‘Editor’s Note’ Correction To Misleading Gitmo Detainee ‘Recidivism’ Story
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