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Eric Hobsbawm: America's imperial delusion
The US drive for world domination has no historical precedent believes Eric Hobsbawm. This is a lenghty extract from another article.Worth the read, though much of it would be hard reading for some Americans.
The key questions now are: what will the Americans do next, and how will other countries react? Will some countries, like Britain, back anything the US plans? Their governments must indicate that there are limits. The most positive contribution has been made by the Turks, simply by saying there are things they are not prepared to do, even though they know it would pay. But the major preoccupation is that of - if not containing - educating or re-educating the US. There was a time when the US empire recognised limitations, or at least the desirability of behaving as though it had limitations. This was largely because the US was afraid of somebody else: the Soviet Union. In the absence of this kind of fear, enlightened self-interest and education have to take over.
3:07:55 PM 
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Blog update
Just to led my readers know, I have not abandoned this weblog. LOL. I have been very busy of late and you may have noticed that I have started making changes to the look.
Categories are gone for now while I try to sort out problems I've been having backdating entries. Many changes need to be made until I am happy. Bear with me please.
In other news I hope to have an article in the New Statesman next week. As with all freelance submission it may or may *not* be published. Anyway if it's not I will be submitting more material to them.
3:01:44 PM
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Another Irish Blog
Just came across the weblog of Jon Ihle and Dick O'Brien in my referral logs. Back Seat Drivers is a good weblog, I shall be returning there regularly. Here is a good story from them:
Coke man gets fired for drinking Pepsi
CNN reports on a Coca Cola employee who was allegedly fired for drinking Pepsi while on the job. Apparently this is 'in violation of Coke's policies aimed to prevent slander against the company and its products'.
2:55:13 PM
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War may have killed 10,000 civilians, researchers say
At least 5,000 civilians may have been killed during the invasion of Iraq, an independent research group has claimed. As more evidence is collated, it says, the figure could reach 10,000.
Who is the editor here? No where do the researchers appear to suggest a figure of 10,000. I think someone writing the headlines here is taking liberties, as what happened with the Paul Wolfowitz oil speech.
1:33:19 AM
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