Keep an eye on Qatar. Something interesting is going on in Arab power politics and I suspect Qatar lies at its centre. Politically and religiously Qatar is important. Qatar is one of the most autocratic but also one of the most ‘liberal’ of the Arab states. It is ruled by an Emir, but has freedom …
More Talks and Q&A’s happening. Wednesday 23rd Feb 15.00 “From Crisis to Cuts – No Accident” a talk by David Malone — Large committee room, Liverpool Students Union, Maryland St, Liverpool, 18.30 Showing Inside Job and Q&A at the Fact Cinema, Liverpool Thursday 24th Feb 11am “From Crisis to Cuts – No Accident” a talk by David Malone — …
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Just a quick update on Libya. There have been reports from unnamed sources within Libya reported by Reuters and Al Jazeera that foreign mercenaries are being used to put down the protests. There have also been videos coming out of the country showing a heavy troop presence but I certainly can’t say if the troops …
Had another interesting conversation about Iran and Islamic unrest with the person who used to work with one of Europe’s larger Intelligence Services. We talked about Iran. The Iranian government is getting worried apparently. And what they are most concerned about are the tribes. The government in Iran, like most governments in the area, is …
Remember when I wrote that I thought the EU was repositioning for the next big event? Here’s a small time line of scattered events. Over the last few months, it turns out, ECB bail outs and loans just have not been enough for either Greece or Ireland. Not surprising in the case of Ireland where …
So far this year ordinary people in Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan, Yemen, Oman and Iran have taken to the streets. In all of them the demands have been for greater democracy. Not one of the protests has had the “Death to America”, “Death to Israel” so beloved of the Fox News knuckle heads. So this …
The only thing more unwise to speculate about than finance is politics. So I thought I’d do both. You know those times when you see things which just don’t look right and seem to all be at right angles to the official or assumed story? Well I’m having one of those times. The Danes started …
Here are the final dates and times for the talks and Q&A sessions after showings of Charles Ferguson’s Oscar nominated “Inside Job”. Charles Ferguson rather kindly sent us this in response to reading The Debt Generation, “David Malone comes to a similar conclusion as I came to making Inside Job: that the financial system, as …
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What has been gained these last two years and what has been lost? And how shall measure its value? Here are two graphs, two measure of one reality. They both measure the huge surge in the number of Americans who rely on Food Stamps to feed themselves and their children. They are from articles both …
What kind of future will the 21st Century bring us? Will it be a Utopia of promised riches (conditional on us following the appropriate economic prescription, of course)? Or could we be faced with a more sinister culture presaged by such Dystopian visions as George Orwell’s “1984” and Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World”? Or will …
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