JF:
> In Japan wasn't land reform imposed by the American
> occupation under MacArthur?
This is what I've read from all the standard sources (like
Reischauer). It seems to have created the Japanese equivalent of the
Republican-voting dairy farmer of the MidAtlantic US. They hold a few
rice paddi
On Sat, 29 May 2010 11:07:54 +0900 CeJ writes:
> I find some similarity between post-war developing Japan and current
> Thailand.
>
> Yes, the class war is real. Yes, it largely contests the future of
> the
> Thai national development state (which is doing better than
> Philippines or Indones
Americans still don't have health care, the US military still occupies
Iraq, its occupation of Afghanistan has expanded, and Obama pulled a
real bonehead move earlier this year when he announced a reversal--a
total boneheaded flipflop on offshore drilling--and gave the likes of
T. Boone Pickens (oi