What Egyptians Want Now
A window of opportunity still exists to marginalize Egypt’s Islamists.
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This week, the Mercatus Center at George Mason University released the second in a series of working papers that address the growing concern over cyberwar. In that paper, "Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy," researchers Jerry Brito and Tate Watkins take issue with what they see as a clear case of "threat inflation" on the part of those who claim repeatedly that "cyber-doom" is near. read »
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On April 3 at a Hong Kong airport, dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was arrested on unknown charges and is being held indefinitely. So Avaaz.org, the go-to online spot to get petitions signed and in the right hands, launched a "Free Ai Weiwei" petition on Thursday and has surpassed other, perhaps more mundane petitions, such as no corruption in India and save Russia's forests. read »
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What is it about intellectuals that seem to, generation after generation, fall in love with totalitarian regimes because of their grand and triumphal projects? Whether it was the trains running on time in Italy, or the Moscow subways, or now high-speed rail lines in China, western dupes constantly fall for the lure of the great pyramid without seeing the diversion of resources and loss of liberty that went into building it. read »
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Part III of Interview with Chrystia Freeland on the Global Elites
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Part II of Interview with Chrystia Freeland on the Global Elites
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Earth to Greece: It's Over
When a developed, sovereign nation finds itself borrowing at VISA card interest rates, it’s time to declare (really, admit) bankruptcy. With market interest rates on its 2-year notes now exceeding 22%, this is the position that Greece is in today. By making a bargain with the bailout devil to raise taxes in the name of “austerity”, Greece has pitched itself into an economic death spiral from which there is no escape short of defaulting on its debts. read »
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