The Contrarian Progressive

I know what I know. Somehow, what I see is different from what other people see.

13 August 2015

Chinese Currency in Record Fall: Oh Dear!

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Yesterday, this was the headline on the BBC News site. I included other news items below the headline for you to be able to verify ...
10 August 2015

Greek Bailout Money: Another Case for Oh Dearism

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Since very few of my readers checked out the Oh Dear theory you might not be familiar with the notion.  It refers to the corporate media...
06 August 2015

Can Somebody Explain to Me "Erdogan's Gamble"?

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After losing the June 7 elections, Turkey's bombastic President Tayyip Erdogan has first declared the Kurdish peace initiative DOA and ...
26 July 2015

Will Erdogan Push Turkey Into Syrian Quagmire?

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This is not a hypothetical question. And after the recent massacre in Suruc, a small town in Southern Turkey, where 32 people were killed ...
11 July 2015

Thomas Picketty: "Germany Has Never Paid Its Debts"

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You probably have heard of Thomas Picketty, the author of " Capital in the 21st Century ." He gave a recent interview to Die Zei...
04 July 2015

Testing Radicalization of Muslims Hypothesis: the Aaurhus Model

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Recently I came across a case that seemed to corroborate my hypothesis on why people join ISIS . For those of you who found my original pr...
03 July 2015

Greece and Germany Debate Signalling Profound Changes in EU

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The main feedback I got on my  previous post on Grexit  was along the lines of, "well it was a nice and tidy argument but you were too ...
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