Erdoğan finally in Reyhanlı. The crowd transported from other cities…
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‘Those who seek to preserve their dictatorship disrupted our peace’, Turkish PM says in Reyhanlı During his Reyhanlı visit, Turkish PM Erdoğan accused al-Assad of being involved in the bombings ***************** Bumps on Er...
Türkiye İslamcılığının yeni bir dip noktası… Fatih Camii’nde Protesto: “Katil İran, Katil Hizbullah”
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Haberi Haksöz‘de. Ben Friendfeed‘de dolanırken gördüm. Birçok İslami kuruluşun dâhil olduğu Suriye Halkıyla Dayanışma Platformunun çağrısıyla bug&u...
European Federalist Paper number seven: democracy versus Hollande
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Join the discussion about a democratic and federal future in a Europe which ensures the political and other fundamental rights of every citizen. European Federalist Papers You can like and follow the European Federalist Papers on Facebook and Go...
Look how AKP MEPs worked on to legislate more alcohol restrictions…
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Q&A: On Turkey’s proposed alcohol restrictions ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — A look at legislation passed in Turkey’s parliament early Friday that would ban all alcohol advertising and tighten restrictions on the sale of such beverages,...
Bayern Munich are the club Germans love to hate | Comment
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Borussia Dortmund will have most neutrals on their side, and for good reason – the match is as much about politics as footballA friend tells the following story. In 1999, he was watching Bayern Munich play Manchester United in a bar in Kiel, hi...
The Real Money Multiplier
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Conventional economic theory states that banks are bounded by their reserve requirements when it comes to creating new money. In the conventional way, if just one bank exists in the economy, the money multiplier roughly equals the inverse of the rese...
The Real Money Multiplier
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Conventional economic theory states that banks are bounded by their reserve requirements when it comes to creating new money. In the conventional way, if just one bank exists in the economy, the money multiplier roughly equals the inverse of the rese...
Negation in European metapolitics (prolegomena)
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The metapolitical is the topos where the formulation and concretization of the radical imaginary that underlies the institution of society takes place; this being the creation and explicit identification of the essential subject-object dichotomy, the...
Obama’s speech on terrorism, drones, Guantanamo… A new strategy?
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POTUS also said in his speech: With a decade of experience now to draw from, this is the moment to ask ourselves hard questions about the nature of today’s threats, and how we should confront them. Read few comments on this. Questions: How much...
Nordic countries and EU: Public opinion in Norway
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After a short recap of the new government in Iceland, we begin to look at various degrees of lukewarm: how the European Union and the eurozone are perceived in the Nordic countries. First we glance at public opinion in Norway. Read Nordic countries a...
“When a Burglar Enters Your Home”: Debating Serbia's Self-Defense Law
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Saško Bogeski killed a burglar in his home in Belgrade on Tuesday and was immediately arrested. The authorities believe this to be the case of excessive self-defense. Serbian netizens have united in their support for Bogeski and are demanding...
Russian Non-Profit “Mercy Island” Helps Stray Animals
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In an April 2013 interview with Evgeny Voropai of Social Technologies Greenhouse, Tatiana Nikitina, president of the charity group Mercy Island, discussed why public organizations are interested in social media and what challenges they face in their...
More Taxes and Less Taxes: The United States Diverge in a Stronger Union
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One of the main virtues of federalism is that it allows for both the power that comes with taking a united stance and the cultural and political diversity that naturally exists from state to state. In other words, federalism is not only a means check...
Why is Vatican called the Holy See?
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Because Holy Sea was given sovereignty over the hill called Vatican, or Vatican City, to separate the papal state from modern Italy. The Holy See is episcopal jurisdiction of the Catholic Church of Rome, headed by the bishop of Rome commonly known as...
Europe's centre-left: a programme without frontiers | Editorial
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Centre-left parties across Europe could shore up their slipping credibility by tackling the big issues on a broader stageWith Munich matched against Dortmund in the Champions League final at Wembley tonight, today is a day to remind us once again tha...
Vladimir Putin's goal is to destroy Russian civil society | Lyudmila Alexeeva
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For demanding fair elections and respect for the constitution, Russians are being treated as spies and traitorsI have been active in the human rights scene here since the dark days of the Soviet Union. As I look across today's Russia, I have eve...
Yeni Anayasa Gündemi: Kasım’da anayasa referandumu olabilir…
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Erdoğan’ın ABD ziyareti ve Yeni Anayasa Sabah Başbakan Erdoğan’ın ABD ziyareti, kim ne derse desin, Türkiye’nin iftihar ettiği başarılı bir ziyaret olmuştur. Sadece karş...
Holidays, or holy-days, are a great time to relearn enchantment with the world | Giles Fraser
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On this Greek island, I am gaining much vicarious enrichment seeing the world anew through the eyes of my 10-year-old sonI wage a losing battle in my house over the use of the word "literally". "I'm not actually joking, Alice, we saw this apple and i...
EU and the Syria Arms Embargo
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The EU is still struggling to find a compromise on whether to relax its Syria arms embargo with the debate now focusing on the impact of such a move on a key peace initiative.
Outrage over Arrest of Two Photojournalists in Spain
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The news of the arrest of photojournalist Raúl Capín, in Madrid, was widely shared under the tag #RaúlLibertad on Twitter. Photojournalist Adolfo Luján was also arrested. Many online messages of indignation and against the...
Social matters – Ukraine
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One of the key advantages of any political incumbent with elections on the horizon, is the ability to indirectly bribe sections of the community through social policy – slowly but surely – in the run-up to campaigning. Now 2015 and the ne...
EU Week Ahead: May 27 — June 2
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The European Commission's country-specific economic recommendations dominate the EU agenda for the coming week.
Mary Louise Roberts, “What Soldiers Do: Sex and the American GI in World War II France”
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[Cross-posted from New Books in French Studies] Tracking soldiers from the villages and towns of Northern France, to the “Silver Foxhole” of Paris, to tribunals that convicted a disproportionate number of African-American soldiers of...
Nordic countries and EU: Public opinion in Norway
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I am sorry for the inconvenience caused to people who tried to access Grahnlaw during the outage of the blog host. Things seem to have returned to norma, so I'll post today's entry at a later time than usually. *** After a short recap of the new...
Don't glamourise these losers by treating them as international terrorists
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When we call a man a terrorist, we bestow a certain status on him. He ceases to be a common criminal, a violent narcissist, a drop-out. He becomes, instead, a man with a cause. Bellicose young men, in all ages and nations, look for ideologies that ju...
