The Falling Times
Is the west a decadent civilization in decline? Mouse-over the animations to see the headlines, and decide for yourself.
Falling Times refers to the heavy InfoPollution we live in. The InfoSociety has created a new kind of consumer – the InfoConsumer! The most consumed information is the news today. The news has been turning [...]
The Falling Times
Posted by John Lampard on Monday, 5 May, 2008 to the comment subset
Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 11 April, 2008 to the comment subset
Ten Reasons Why China Matters To You, by US foreign affairs expert Thomas P. M. Barnett.
#10: “Because Nixon went to China and your world was born.”
When President Richard Nixon reopened diplomatic ties with Mao Zedong’s communist China in 1972, he enabled the most profound global economic dynamic of the last half century: China’s historic reemergence [...]
Benazir Bhutto: 1953 – 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Friday, 28 December, 2007 to the comment subset
Benazir Bhutto assassinated
This is shocking.
The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in the city of Rawalpindi yesterday, plunging the nuclear-armed country into one of the worst crises in its 60-year history.
I really hate to think what might happen next.
