Japan's Article 9, is it for US too?

Japan’s Constitution was a bold experiment on the part of the office of “Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers.” It holds many of the ideals that are present in the US constitution with one major...

When Johnny Comes Marching Home, be on your guard!

One has to wonder what will happen as the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq return home and try to re-assimilate back into civilian life and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano appears to be taking...

The Global War On Terror is over! The War is Over!

You would be hard pressed to see any dancing in the streets, tickertapes streaming from skyscrapers, or sailors kissing ladies in the streets, but The Global War on Terror is over (not that anyone knew what a Global War on Terror really meant in the first place). On Monday...

The Watchmen Movie Revisited

I find it interesting that most reviews I have seen of The Watchmen, including reviews in Hong Kong, assume that the audience has already read the novel. But everyone I know, myself included, has yet to read the novel. One of my associates decided to read the novel before he...

Collateral Damage

I just had an interesting conversation with a young college student here in Hong Kong. It started simple enough, “you sure are tall, you must be 1.9m tall, are you an American?” (1.88m actually, and yes I am an...

Best News of the Day

I keep getting news feeds Reuters that read "U.S. auto sales fall as recession deepens". I am sure that it was intended to be more "bad news" about the world economy, but I think that it is the best news I have...

"It's The End Of The World As We Know It And I Feel Fine"

The recession in the USA is much deeper and more widespread than any in history. It will absorb any money that is thrown into it, namely the cash reserves of China. What will happen next when all of the cash is...

Is Japan Expecting an Economic Miracle?

It has been nearly twenty years since Japan suffered the collapse of the asset price bubble and their economy never fully recovered from that hit, and now with the global financial crisis there is little hope for...
 

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