PRESIDENT Barack Obama is seriously considering a concept devised by an influential American think-tank which calls for Washington to take the lead in creating a new international institution which would have the stated aim of enforcing the rule of law globally, according to a Russian newspaper.
Archive for March, 2009
Nato could replace UN at heart of new organisation
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Rasmussen dismisses EU recovery plan
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009POUL NYRUP RASMUSSEN, president of the Party of European Socialists in the European Parliament, has branded the European Commission’s economic recovery plan as “complacent”.
Dancing in the streets as Funes wins in Salvador
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009MAURICIO FUNES of the leftist Farabundo Marti Front for National Liberation won the presidential election in El Salvador on Sunday – ending almost two decades of right-wing rule.
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009
AT THE start of this month, Labour’s deputy leader Harriet Harman said that Sir Fred “The Shred” Goodwin should not be counting on being £650,000 a year better off as a result of this because it is not going to happen. The Prime Minister has said it is not acceptable and therefore it will not [...]
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009
THE Royal Mail and the Post Office could be saved for the nation, it is argued, by creating a “people’s bank”. The key word here is “bank”, since it would then qualify to have billions of taxpayers’ money pumped into it – which could keep it going in perpetuity. Meanwhile, a big question – raised [...]
BOOKS: Red icon economics
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Che Guevara: The Economics of Revolution
by Helen Yaffe
Palgrave Macmillan, £17.99
ERNESTO “CHE” GUEVARA became a legend in his own lifetime and an international icon after his execution. His dream was an ambitious one – to unite Latin America and the rest of the developing world through armed revolution in order to end poverty and injustice. It is well known he was a revolutionary fighter, a military strategist, a philosopher and a medical doctor. Che’s work as an economist is less well known other than the old tale about Fidel Castro asking at a meeting: “Is anybody here an economist?” Che raised his hand: “I am,” he said. “All right, Che,” said Fidel, “You’re president of the bank.” Afterwards Castro approached Che and said: “I never knew you were an economist.” “Economist!” said Che. “I thought you said a communist!”
BOOKS: Obama’s soundbites dropping out context
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Barack Obama: In His Own Words
compiled by Lisa Rogak
JR Books, £9.99
REVIEWING a book of quotations is a bit like eating 20 courses in one sitting. Sickening and frustrating. You need a menu to tell you whether you are being given a starter, main or dessert and you need a break between each dish.
FILM: ‘You said beum – what kind of beum?’ ‘The exploding kind’
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009The Pink Panther 2
US 2009
THERE is much to dismiss about The Pink Panther 2, not in any sense a remake of writer-director Blake Edwards’ second Inspector Clouseau film, A Shot in the Dark, but more of Steve Martin’s racially-insensitive yet strangely endearing slapstick, as seen in the 2006 remake, The Pink Panther.
TELEVISION: Boys in the Yorkshire hood – the stuff of nightmares
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Red Riding
Heston’s Victorian Feast
Channel 4
HISTORY is a slippery beast – endlessly rewritten by people who can’t remember it. Just now, we seem to be obsessed with the 1970s. At first, decade was re-invented as a jolly whirl of glitter dust and feather boas: David Bowie, glam-rock, space hoppers and Bagpuss the cat. Movies such as Velvet Underground and Boogie Nights created envy in their audiences for a decadent hedonism that even those of us alive at the time struggle to recall.
VISUAL ARTS: Images of time and other relative dimensions in space
By Tribune Web Editor /Thursday, March 19th, 2009Mark Wallinger: The Russian Linesman, Frontiers, Borders and Thresholds
Hayward Gallery, London
The Russian Linesman – or The Cabinet of Curiosities – curated by Turner Prize winner Mark Wallinger, is an intriguing, idiosyncratic mix of the odd and bizarre that is thoughtful, provocative and engaging. Wallinger, one of the most thoughtful of the young British artists – although now more establishment than revolutionary -– recently caught the public imagination by his Ebbsfleet Landmark, a project to create a surreal monument, a white horse sculpture soaring 50 metres high.