Politicising Communist crimes: inveterate canker
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Two months after the Constitutional Court terminated the investigation of war crimes allegedly perpetrated by Josip Boljkovac in 1945 the Croatian State Prosecutor in Zagreb has January 27 re-opened the case. The new investigation is to be carried ou...
China’s big bet on green industry – and how it might green the world
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"After the failure of Durban, a promising plan B to reducing carbon emissions rests upon green development industrial strategies being pursued by individual countries. And here China is in the vanguard." (Source: OpenDemocracy.net). ...
Dossier défense européenne (1) : les moteurs de Nicolas Sarkozy
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Quels ont été les choix réalisés par Nicolas Sarkozy depuis 2007 en matière de défense européenne ? Quel est son bilan ? Primo, le moteur français semble avoir volontairement bridé son action au sein de l’UE en préférant l’Alliance
Free lectures from Michel Foucault; The Art of the Occupy Movement… and more..
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United States: The Art of the Occupy Movement from Global Voices Online by Gina Cardenas This post is part of our special coverage #Occupy Worldwide. The creative cadre of the Occupy Wall Street movement envisions a world where people are free to exp...
Plus ça change…
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While American Democrats opposed funds for the military, reported the International Herald Tribune in its 100/75/50 Years Ago section, some 800 French workers were protesting a government shutdown while threatening hunger strikes. Democrats Oppose B...
HS2: unaffordable, unecological and unwanted
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I wanted to weep this morning, and not from the cold. It was a perfect English winter sunrise, stark, bright and icy, and it found me in one of the loveliest spots in my constituency: Hartwell House in Buckinghamshire. I crunched through the frost, m...
Athena's vision
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A vision is what motivate us, and motivation is what make us to progress.We are humans, and humans need vision. Without a vision able to make us to feel part of something greater then us we are left with mere human misery: after being born, we're get...
Europe's best online magazine delivered to you
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Our crazy ideas department has just come up with a few more exciting ways to get involved in Europe's best online magazine. The "Best of E&M" E-Book: Still recovering from the hangover of publishing Issue #15, oh and our New Year's...
Europe's best online magazine delivered to you
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Our crazy ideas department has just come up with a few more exciting ways to get involved in Europe's best online magazine. The "Best of E&M" E-Book: Still recovering from the hangover of publishing Issue #15, oh and our New Year's...
An Anthropology roundup: “Toward a Neuroanthropology of Immersive Online Gaming and Cyberdependence” and more…
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HAU and the opening of ethnographic theory from Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog by Rex Ok, a little less politics on this blog and a little more anthropology. Hopefully some of you have looked at the introduction to H...
Amnesty: tell Russia not to block action against Syrian killings
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Dear Supporter, In March last year, as people were rising up across the region, protesters took to the streets of Syria to demand human rights reforms. Since then over 5,000 have been killed as those in power responded with a bloody crackdown. Thousa...
ACTA demonstrations today in Sweden
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From the Stopp ACTA wiki main page you can proceed to the Google protest map or to demonstrations in 19 European countries. The main anti-ACTA action day is 11 February 2012, but today I visit Sweden, where four protests have made it to the pages. In...
Britain’s Olympic Hopefuls – Karina Bryant
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One of the great things about the Olympics is the opportunity it provides for sports with lesser media coverage to take top billing. Karina Bryant began practising Judo at the age of 10 in Camberley Judo Club in Surrey. This … Continue readin...
Find out why paying bribes to do business venture offshores is unlawful and isn't a good idea
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The appliance of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act is not just restricted to the US but reaches to thirty three other governments, which are members of the OECD.
Although Romney is bound to win it, the Nevada caucus could revive Ron Paul's fortunes
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So, the Republican primaries have moved on to the state that contains my favourite city in the whole wide world. Las Vegas is a theme park for adults, a playground in which anything is possible and nothing is forbidden. In a few square miles, you can...
The self pity of the Irish.
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If Breda O’Brien had any more hoary old chestnuts in this piece in today’s Irish Times, she could have held a conkers convention. I don’t often agree with her, as she holds more traditional conservative views than mine, but I also r...
Reporting the Eurozone’s Crisis: Lessons from the Greek Front (*)
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Over the past two years, the economic crisis that has engulfed Greece has also thrust me in front of the microphones and note pads of the myriad journalists who descended upon Athens to report on the unfolding drama. In this sense, I have not only be...
Cengiz Aktar: Danışsız, düzensiz, denetsiz……bir inşaat furyasıyla karşı karşıya Türkiye.
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Danışsız, düzensiz, denetsiz… …bir inşaat furyasıyla karşı karşıya Türkiye. Önümüzdeki onyılların temel ekonomik dinamiği muhtemelen inşaat olacak. Kent, kır, kültür, insan ve doğanın bu furyadaki yeri karar vericiler ne k...
Scrapbook’s top five: our most popular posts this week
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Our Top Five most clicked stories of the last seven days were: Tory who dressed as Maddie McCann given leading role in Europe group Guido hanging petition to be struck off due to lack of signatures Cameron: snatch £1,400 from disabled kids after Chi...
Weekly Bond Yield developments in the Euro Area (W5.2012): Council Decisions, PSI Deal & Statistics
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The past week was relatively calm with the exception of Portugal and Greece, which dominated economic and financial news. Some apparent relief might have come from Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the EU held on Monday, The Greek … Contin...
Latest Developments in Greek PSI Talks: Back to a War of Attrition?
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Following last week’s confusion and in light of the approaching maturity of €14.5 Bn Greek sovereign bonds, I take the next lines to consider the developments in the ongoing Greek fiscal crisis. I begin with an overview of the events leading...
General Mladen Markac ICTY defence suggests: “dump” the Prosecution’s Motion
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The Croatian General Mladen Markac defence team in the ICTY Appeal has February 2 filed its Response to the January 23 Prosecution Motion with regards to the Application and Brief by 12 British, Canadian and American legal and military experts as Fri...
Paul Burstow Champions Coalition Wins
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When Nick Clegg planned a Liberal Democrat parliamentary away-day in Eastbourne this week he could hardly have known that the media hordes would descend on that seaside town, not to quiz MPs and Ministers about policy but rather about the fate of Ch...
The Super Bowl Goes Digital, and Yonjo Quiroa Goes to Jail
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It’s Super Bowl weekend in America! This Kat applauds Amerikat for the great enthusiasm she showed for the championship game of American football last year. This guest Kat will likely find a comfy couch at a friend’s house, where s...
[SFTW] Dear Davey: handbrake turn needed
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Every government needs a thick slice of luck, and this week’s has come as Chris Huhne slid off the political road into the ditch. Ed Davey has a golden chance to drive away...
You haven’t a prayer with the new atheists
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As if the Guardian were not already preachy enough, it has signed up an actual preacher to write its leaders and op-eds. The Rev Dr Giles Fraser resigned as a canon of St Paul’s in sympathy with people camped on its doorstep for whom I think the ki...
Chris Huhne on crime and punishment
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Wise words from a man who knows exactly what he’s talking about… …and may soon be able to speak with even more authority on the subject.
Will German President Christian Wulff survive?
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According to new poll 54 percent of Germans think President Wulff should step down. Question: Will pressure on Wulff increase or would you say he as able to manage it? Answers: Rüdiger Wurzel, Reader, Department of Politics and International Stud...
Will German President Christian Wulff survive?
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According to new poll 54 percent of Germans think President Wulff should step down. Question: Will pressure on Wulff increase or would you say he as able to manage it? Answers: Rüdiger Wurzel, Reader, Department of Politics and International Stud...
Looking at some peacebuilding assumptions
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My most recent post (29 Jan) reflected about peacebuilding inside the bounds of the European Union as well as outside. My thinking grew out of International Alert’s recently started work in the UK. Going a bit further, some more thoughts &#...
Simpsons’ Groundskeeper Willie prompts Scottish Parliament motion
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In what has come as a huge blow for Glasgow City Council, The Simpsons writer Rob Lazebnik has revealed that Groundskeeper Willie — described by The Times as “the most recognisable Scot in the world” — officially hails from Kirkwall ...
Indictment of Switzerland's oldest bank Wegelin analyzed: audio
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Switzerland's oldest bank, Wegelin, has been indicted by US prosecutors on charges of conspiring to conceal $1.2 billion in assets from American tax authorities. Click here to listen to an interview with tax attorney George Clarke from the law firm M...
