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Feudalism

Raymond Aron (1955): Nations and Ideologies: Weekend Reading

This is the best expression of the end-of-ideology "managerialism" theses of the Great Post-WWII Keynesian Boom— Les Trente Glorieuses. It is remarkably early: 1955. And it is 100% correct that those who tried to apply a pre-WWI socialist or a Leninist frame …

bubmagMay 11, 2019

NATO

Turkey denies scrapping Russia S-400 missile deal after US pressure

The US has also offered the more expensive US-made Patriot system at a discounted price. Turkey has shown an interest in the Patriot system, but not at the cost of breaking its contract with Russia. (Wikipedia) Turkey has dismissed a report in a German newsp…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Barack Obama

Larry Wilmore on Criticism in the Land of the Woke

Larry Wilmore attends the I Have A Dream Foundations Fifth Annual Los Angeles Dreamer Dinner at Skirball Cultural Center on March 18, 2018. This week, The Gist, the daily news and culture podcast I host for Slate, turned 5 years old. To celebrate, my produce…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Biological Warfare

Balloon Bombs: Imperial Japan’s Top Secret Plan to Bomb the U.S. Homeland

It crossed silently on a chilly winter evening over the southern Oregon coast, descending slowly, its ballast spent. The Japanese bomb-laden paper balloon collapsed into the Gearhart Mountain forest near the line separating Lake and Klamath Counties in south-…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Food Industry

Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.

I can’t stop thinking about cupcakes. No, not chic ones from the bakery, swathed in caramel buttercream, $3.95 each—I mean real cupcakes, baked at home by Mom and the kids in a classic ritual of American domesticity. This evening, Ashley—she’s one of nine wom…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Super Komachi

What Kitao’s Matcha Skin-Care Line Taught Me About Japanese Beauty

When I joked that I'd go to a party in Japan, I didn't think I would actually manifest an invitation. But about a month later, I found myself sitting in an izakaya in Osaka with people from all over Asia in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Japanese bea…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Riots

BJP slams Sidhu’s ‘kale angrez’ barb, questions his silence on ‘hua-to-hua’ remark

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Monsanto

Bayer says won’t tolerate unethical behavior as France probes Monsanto file

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Bayer said on Saturday it did not accept “unethical behavior” following a French investigation into a suspected file assembled by the German company’s seed making unit Monsanto to influence various personalities in France. The French p…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea’s missile tests not ‘breach of trust’: Trump

North Korean missile launches over the past week have not affected Donald Trump's relationship with Kim Jong Un, the US president said Friday, in a change of course after initially expressing his dissatisfaction. Pyongyang fired two short-range missiles Thur…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Water Scarcity

Yemen Press Reader 536: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 536 – Yemen War Mosaic 536

Eingebetteter Medieninhalt Eingebetteter Medieninhalt ... Geldzuwendungen verbessern Ernährung der Kinder Jemens Wald, ein weiteres Opfer des Krieges 2014: Jemeniten verkaufen ihre Nieren Der fragmentierte Südjemen Die Politik der Emirate auf Sokotra Blackw…

bubmagMay 11, 2019

Raymond Aron (1955): Nations and Ideologies: Weekend Reading

Turkey denies scrapping Russia S-400 missile deal after US pressure

Larry Wilmore on Criticism in the Land of the Woke

Balloon Bombs: Imperial Japan’s Top Secret Plan to Bomb the U.S. Homeland

Eat Food. All the Time. Mostly Junk.

What Kitao’s Matcha Skin-Care Line Taught Me About Japanese Beauty

BJP slams Sidhu’s ‘kale angrez’ barb, questions his silence on ‘hua-to-hua’ remark

Bayer says won’t tolerate unethical behavior as France probes Monsanto file

North Korea’s missile tests not ‘breach of trust’: Trump

Yemen Press Reader 536: | Jemenkrieg-Mosaik 536 – Yemen War Mosaic 536

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