NYT OpEd: William Powers Explains Why Bolivia's Oil Nationalization Isn't ScaryI'm starting to wonder whether the outrage over capitalist globalization's evisceration of the Global South should be focused not on the WTO, but on the IMF/World Bank. Because it is built on continual negotiations, the WTO gives smaller and developing nations a number ( Read more... )

In the course of reviewing/outlining my CCOL notes, I came across all the countless shreds of Actually Useful Info bestowed upon us in the form of Professorial Tangents. Most of them have to do with how Germany's civil procedure and court system work, but there was a whole class-long tangent (I kid you not: from beginning to end of class, while we ( Read more... )