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Surprise, Central Planning is Still Stupid (Even in China)

Lee on Aug 07 2008 | Filed under: Foreign affairs, Lee's Page, Uncategorized, Urban planning and development

(photo: 2 Dogs)
Modern China has a curious capacity to make otherwise very sensible capitalists instantly forget every experience they’ve ever had with government central planning. The Western businessman on a trip to Shanghai looks up and sees all those gleaming skyscrapers going up on the Yangtze, and he thinks massive state planning must be different [...]

No Mas FARC

Lee on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: Around the Web

Venezuelans not fond of Hugo Chavez’s new found affinity for narcoterrorism, are planning street marches in Caracas and Maracaibo to explicitly reject FARC and their murderous barbarism. This is an enormously heartening sign of genuinely worthwhile international solidarity, unlike the vile and dictatorial version Hugo likes to promote. Details in English from Kate at A [...]

The Green Party and National Security: An Interview with Alan Augustson

Lee on May 29 2007 | Filed under: Environment, Interviews, Lee's Page

A few weeks back I posted a facile little rebuke aimed at the national security implications of Green Party presidential candidate Alan Augustson’s political platform. Alan responded to this in such a way that I realized I had little idea what the Green Party’s position on security matters was, relative to its environmental policies. Indeed, [...]