All the headlines yesterday about the US ‘reducing dependence on foreign oil by 75% by 2025″? Yeah, uh, “never mind” “This was purely an example,” Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman said. Yeah, wouldn’t want to piss off our friends and shining example of democracy in action, the House of Saud. KRT Wire | 02/01/2006 | Administration […]
A moment for a more serious and boring thing: money. Specifically, the money that Israel (and presumably the US) is going to withhold from Palestine to punish their version of democracy? Some of our non-democratic friends are helping them out: Saudi Arabia, Qatar to Fund Palestinians Saudi Arabia promised $20 million and Qatar pledged $13 […]
The one thing about “Democracy,” by which I’m talking about just the simple (ha) idea of allowing people to elect their leaders,is that it sometimes doesn’t go the way you want. from http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010895,00.html “Western leaders lined up to express their concern at the political earthquake, but in the Arab world, the apparent landslide was greeted […]