fear of a red planet
Saturday, 31 December 2011

Gordon Chang: The pundit who cried wolf

›
I first read of Gordon G. Chang back in my Taiwan days when various editorialists in the Taipei Times used to trumpet his claim that the g...
4 comments:
Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Shaun Rein: "Shame on CNN . . I have no idea if Chen’s being wronged or not"

›
This latest piece by ultra-apologist Shaun Rein on Christian Bale getting roughed up on-camera really does take the cake: "CNN’s Chin...
6 comments:
Tuesday, 20 December 2011

Beijing

›
Since I'm now on holiday back in (not very) sunny old Blighty , I thought I'd take the time to describe some of my travels from earl...
2 comments:

Vaclav Havel on the tears in Pyongyang

›
Right on the money: “The manager of a fruit and vegetable shop places in his window, among the onions and carrots, the slogan: ‘Workers of ...
2 comments:
Friday, 25 November 2011

Interview

›
See here .
1 comment:
Monday, 21 November 2011

The 21st of November, 2001.

›
[This is one of those personal posts, so if that's not your bag, just watch the video below, it's got balloons and stuff in it] Ten ...
4 comments:
Wednesday, 16 November 2011

Another mind-bendingly bad policy on immigration

›
I don't have much to say about this proposed policy that would prevent British citizens bringing foreign-born spouses or children into ...
2 comments:
Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Hidden Harmonies' Raventhorn: Let's have a Cultural Revolution

›
Here's Raventhorn on why the Cultural Revolution really wasn't all that bad : [T]otally agree that CR created a “can do” mentality. ...
3 comments:

China Property Prices Fall

›
I don't have much commentary to add to this, except that it's big news. If all the caveats added in the video about the lower level ...

Why Beijing may be the best friend Hong Kong democrats have right now

›
Amid the gloom-and-doom of yesterday's rout of Hong Kong's pan-democrats in the district council elections, and their grey prospect...
Saturday, 5 November 2011

Note to Jimmy Wales: there has already been a Chinese Spring

›
From a talk recently given by the Wikipedia founder : "There will be a Chinese spring exactly like like the Arab spring. It isn't a...
3 comments:
Thursday, 13 October 2011

From the US Embassy, Damascus

›
On their Facebook page: A Note from Facebook moderator Leslie Ordeman We recently put up an article about the Occupy Wall Street protests in...
9 comments:
Friday, 30 September 2011

Crossing The Nine-Dotted Line

›
The logic of editorials in the Global Times is often easily attacked. Take this latest excrescence - an article entitled "Time to tea...
6 comments:
Friday, 2 September 2011

Check out my post over at CLB

›
Under my real name this time, you can see it here .
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
Gilman Grundy
Wroclaw, Poland
http://twitter.com/FOARP
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.