Expanding Globalization’s Agenda
One poster carried by a young protester near the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington last Sunday showed many small fish coming together in the shape of a huge, collective fish to swallow a big one.
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Al Gore and the Iraqi Democracy Question
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythThen-Vice President Al Gore was the first high-level U.S. official ever to publicly promise to promote “democracy in Iraq.” Nothing would be more revolutionary for a place that had been long dominated by a small minority.
France’s Feeble Demand
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythOne trait that France and the United States have in common is that each nation acts like it has moral authority to lead the world.
Leader of the Pack
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythSeeming more distant now than it did then, it was the form basketball star Bill Bradley when he ran for president who said that the U.S. must stop going it alone so in the world and learn to work more cooperatively.
Cold War Bias in Colombia?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythCarlos Castano is not a name that comes up much in the debate over whether to escalate U.S. drug-war aid to Colombia. But policy-makers and politicians alike in America should be mindful of the alliances that he and other rightist paramilitaries…
Did Kosovo Beget East Timor?
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythNever have so many different forces been deployed in the same place. Hungarian soldiers guard “Film City,” the former movie studio that is now a hilltop command post for NATO-led international forces in Kosovo’s capital of Pristina.
Most Wanted
/in IntellectualCapital.com/by Frank SmythThe less-than-modest American diplomat who brokered the 1995 Dayton accords to end the war in Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, did more than anyone else to persuade the Clinton administration that Yugoslavia’s president, Slobodan Milosevic…