Looking West Through The Bahamas Prism: Drugs, Solar Power & Gambling

Looking West Through The Bahamas Prism: Drugs, Solar Power & Gambling

Published April 9th, 2015 by Peter Kinder

Considering the US through the prism of stories in the Bahamian press reveals facets of the flawed, cracking diamond that is our country. Drug Wars Uber Alles The Punch, The…

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‘Leave it to the Chinese’: US Security Today

‘Leave it to the Chinese’: US Security Today

Published February 2nd, 2015 by Peter Kinder

‘Leave it to the Chinese to secure the White House, the US Capitol, most US Airports and international borders.’ That headline on an eTurboNews.com release on Feb. 1 grabbed my…

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‘The Rule of Law’: A Lot of Moldy Washing

Published July 28th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

What distinguishes ‘us’ from ‘them’, we learnt in the bomb-shelter era, is ‘the rule of law’. We’ve got it; they don’t. Watching foundations and universities over a…

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A Colbert Report: The Chinese Revive a 17th – 18th Century Economic Philosophy?

Published July 15th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

What are the Chinese up to in Africa when they buy up natural resources and agricultural capacity? Why are they doing in the Bahamas, a ‘brass plate’ tax…

Dickens, Kipling & Boarding Schools

Published July 2nd, 2013 by Peter Kinder

How Dickensian was your boarding school? That this question, hotly debated between ages 13 and 18, persists in my peers’ seventh decade says much about their schools’ capacity…

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‘Moscow 1937′: A Terrifying Read

Published June 9th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

The scariest book I ever read I didn’t read on a moonless night with a flashlight in a sleeping bag at 9000 feet in the Teton Wilderness Area. …

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Embrace the Constrictor: HSBC’s Year of the Snake Ad Campaign

Published March 23rd, 2013 by Peter Kinder

The year of the snake on the Chinese calendar has inspired HSBC to a slick advertising campaign with an arresting image: a brush-painted black snake. The constrictor’s long body…

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Climate Change: The Displacement of Millions & Global Security

Published March 11th, 2013 by Peter Kinder

Climate change is a security risk, indeed the largest Asia Pacific security risk: So warned Admiral Samuel J. Locklear III, Commander, US Pacific Command, The Boston Globe reported…

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The Sands of (Our) Time: Casinos, Regulations & Elections

Published October 26th, 2012 by Peter Kinder

Of the business visionaries of the 20th century, none was greater than Meyer Lansky (1902-83). Crime writer and poker expert, James McManus, described him a decade ago in…

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Jeremy Bernstein on Tsunamis

Published March 15th, 2011 by Peter Kinder

One of my favorite scientist-writers is physicist Jeremy Bernstein. On the New York Review of Books blog on March 14 he posted a primer on tsunamis. It is worth reading.…

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