Category Archives: International

Gordon Brown on the Global Financial Crisis

Posted on December 14, 2010 by billmanzi

Former British Prime Minister, and former Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown was on Morning Joe talking about the financial problems facing the global economy today. Brown talked about the new trillion dollar tax package, (he favors short term stimulus … Continue reading →

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Nick Clegg on Morning Joe

Posted on October 1, 2010 by billmanzi

The Deputy Prime Minister of Great Britain visiting Joe and Mika on Morning Joe. While Washington dithers the British, after an election produced no one party with a ruling majority, now have a government with a Conservative Prime Minister and … Continue reading →

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Tony Blair: A Journey

Posted on September 5, 2010 by billmanzi

Tony Blair has just published his memoirs and is now making the rounds to publicize the book. He stopped in to Christine Amanpour’s This Week show and talked about a whole bunch of interesting (to me) stuff. The New York … Continue reading →

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Steele on the Ropes Again

Posted on July 5, 2010 by billmanzi

GOP Chairman Michael Steele is under withering fire from key members of his own party over remarks he made last week questioning our ability to win in Afghanistan and calling that war one of “Obama’s choosing”. The reaction from the … Continue reading →

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The President Surges in Afghanistan

Posted on December 1, 2009 by billmanzi

President Obama spoke tonight to an audience at West Point, detailing plans to add thirty thousand troops in Afghanistan but calling for a finite time frame for the mission of building Afghanistan’s military and governmental infrastructure. He spoke of the … Continue reading →

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The Obama Message to Iran

Posted on March 20, 2009 by billmanzi

President Obama released a video today, reaching out in a cautious way to Iran. From the Washington Post: The White House said the United States still has serious differences with Iran, particularly on the threat a nuclear-armed Tehran poses to … Continue reading →

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Iceland Collapses

Posted on October 10, 2008 by billmanzi

The nation of Iceland imploded financially on Thursday, with its currency crashing and its financial institutions nationalized. The prospect of national bankruptcy was broached by the Prime Minister himself. From the New York Times: Iceland’s financial system collapsed Thursday, and … Continue reading →

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Gordon Brown on the Ropes

Posted on May 23, 2008 by billmanzi

What is a story about the English Prime Minister doing on this blog? Well, we need a foreign policy in Methuen, you know. As a long time fan of Prime Ministers questions on C-Span I have been fascinated by the … Continue reading →

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What is Your Consumption Factor?

Posted on January 5, 2008 by billmanzi

A recent op-ed piece in the New York Times by Jared Diamond talks of the disparity in “consumption rates’ between the first world and the developing world. He posits that the wide disparity in this consumption factor (with the first … Continue reading →

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Bhutto Assasination

Posted on December 31, 2007 by billmanzi

Benazir Bhutto’s assasination and the government explanation of it are further called into question by the linked video from NBC showing a different view of the events. Link to the video here. This assasination has left the Musharaff government teetering, … Continue reading →

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