National Review, which is usually wrong these days, is dead-on right concerning the media savvy terrorists.
This kind of reportage has created a relationship of co-dependency between terrorists and the media: The fetishization of suffering results in a morally obtuse emphasis on civilian casualties, and the ensuing outcry from world organizations and opinionated foreign […]

The failure of the Doha Round is the latest and greatest example of the first world deliberately fucking the third world via protectionist trade barriers.
Now the Doha Round has collapsed without an agriculture agreement. The U.S. refused to cut subsidies unless the Europeans agreed to deeper cuts in tariffs, while the Europeans […]

Jacob Weisberg says sanctions don’t work, because they ultimately turn the oppressed population against us.
Sanctions tend to fail as a diplomatic tool for the same reason aerial bombing usually fails. As Israel is again discovering in Lebanon, the infliction of indiscriminate suffering tends to turn a populace against the proximate cause of its devastation, not […]

Here are a few more 70s anime programs you might not have seen, all created by Tatsunoko Productions, who did Gatchaman. There is Hurricane Polymar, Space Knight Tekkaman but I think I like the opening to Robot Hunter Casshan the best. Dig that air ballet! And nothing beats a robotic man’s best friend…

And of course, […]

Battle of the Planets, (adapted from Gatchaman) inspired many an adolescent daydream, once upon a time. Remember the day when you would wake up before school to watch TV?

There was another anime from either the late 70s or the early 80s that featured giant ships, pirate ship style, traveling through space. I can’t for the […]