music messing with the mind…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/2012/11/while_the_band_played_on.html
Hunter S. Thompson ain’t got nothin’ on Oliver….
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/9661347/Oliver-Sacks-most-mind-bending-experiment.html
Political Economy
How are the Greeks doing? What might their current state of affairs tell us about the likely outcomes of Troika ponzi-austerity for the rest of the southern European periphery?
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/11/why-greece-is-a-model-of-economic-mismanagement.html
The battle between the dollar and the RMB for supremacy as global reserve currency is picking up pace… or is it?
http://www.mpettis.com/2012/11/17/is-there-an-asian-rmb-bloc/ (For a selection of articles on topic, click here)
John Kay on a defining characteristic of our age: “The monumental folly of rent-seeking”
http://www.johnkay.com/2012/11/21/the-monumental-folly-of-rent-seeking
Middle East
the latest chapter of Egypt’s open-ended revolution:
Hamid Dabashi discusses president Morsi’s power grab… and Nathan Brown adds his two cents on the matter…
the media, Gaza and the problems inherent in covering such an unbalanced conflict…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sherine-tadros/gaza-war-coverage_b_2167036.html
How has Oman fared since the 2011 Arab revolutions? Marc Valeri takes a closer look…
http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/8430/%E2%80%9Cqaboos-can-make-mistakes-like-anybody-else_-the-s
