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Mthethwa to Act As Cooperative Governance And Traditional Affairs Minister
Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa has been appointed acting Minister for Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA).
Barack Obama And the Question of “Universal Rights”
Barack Obama made a bold move in participating in a “town hall” meeting with Chinese students in Shanghai. However, on the basis of the Al Jazeera English account of this meeting (taken from both wire sources and their own staff), he...
What Will the Internet Become to Whom?
It has always seemed to me that Barry Diller has tried to keep a low profile. He strikes me as someone more concerned with running his business than with indulging in subjunctive speculations about how businesses of the future will be (or ought to...
Was It Worth the Time And Money (not to Mention Media Attention)?
I just finished reading Andrew Walker’s assessment of the G20 summit on the BBC NEWS Web site. My guess is that any assessment will probably come down to whether the glass is half-empty or half-full without raising any questions about whether...
Not to be Trusted with Problem-Solving?
John Nichols’ latest post to his blog (The Beat) on the Web site for The Nation may have come up with the perfect rejoinder to my recent grousing about the prevailing attitude at the G20 preferring growth to problem-solving: The G20 Summit that...
The Growth Question
Much of my writing about economic conditions has focused on the dangers of a prevailing commitment that growth is all that matters where economic health is concerned. I have even suggested that this fixation on growth is a primary means by which the...
Rearranging the Deck Chairs
If I am to believe last night’s story from Steve Schifferes, Economic Reporter for BBC News, there is a good chance that discussions at the G20 meeting could get hung up over questions of governance having to do with which countries have how...
In Search of Deeds, Not Words
Last night, in the wake of Barack Obama’s media blitz, the following dispatch came over the Reuters wire: U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would push world leaders this week for a reshaping of the global economy in response to the...
