FTfm on AV
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Some highlights from Monday’s FTfm.BlackRock hit by Vanguard price pressureFerocious price competition by Vanguard is helping its exchange traded funds business attract...
Putin and the Punks: Can Europe help Pussy Riot?
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On August 17th, three members of the Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot were convicted of ‘hooliganism motivated by religious hatred' after performing an anti-Putin ‘punk prayer' in Moscow's Orthodox cathedral earlier this year. The two year p...
ECB Market Intervention: Outright Monetary Transactions (“OMT”) – A Preliminary Assessment
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Last Thursday, September 6th, the ECB introduced its new goverment bond purchasing programme, known as the Outright Monetary Transactions (“OMT”). If you are interested in getting the information from the lion’s mouth, you can wat...
Med banansteg mot garanterad basinkomst
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När jag gick i småskolan lekte vi en lek där man ställde upp sig på en rad, och sedan gällde det att enligt olika regler ta sig fram till en viss punkt med olika typer av steg. Till exempel fanns det jättekliv, myrsteg och banansteg i den här...
Med banansteg mot garanterad basinkomst
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När jag gick i småskolan lekte vi en lek där man ställde upp sig på en rad, och sedan gällde det att enligt olika regler ta sig fram till en viss punkt med olika typer av steg. Till exempel fanns det jättekliv, myrsteg och banansteg i den här...
United Kingdom: Helen Grant, the First Black Female Cabinet Minister
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Afro Europe wrote a post on the appointment of a black female in Cameron's new cabinet and gave the list of black female Cabinet members in Europe: “Helen Grant MP has been made a Minister in David Cameron’s Ministerial reshuffle this S...
Document: Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibility: A Handbook for Scholars and Teachers of the Middle East
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Attempts to undermine professors’ abilities to teach and do research are increasingly directed at scholars who seek to provide a contextualized and critical view of recent international developments and their interaction with US foreign policie...
“Too many foreigners”
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According to this graph published recently in the leading Dutch newspaper the Volkskrant, the number of Dutch who feel there are “too many people of other nationalities living in our country” has now dropped to a mere….38%. Reason to define [..
Recommended reading on eurocrisis: Eurodaemmerung, Foreign Affairs Sept/Oct 2012
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Most media coverage of the eurocrisis comes from the national press of the countries concerned. This has the effect of forcing a national perspective on the issue, ranging from a mere focus of what “one’s own” politicians did or sai...
Serhatcan Yurdam (@syurdam) derledi: “Taksim’de Özgür Basın Emekçileri için Eylem
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[View the story "Taksim'de Özgür Basın Emekçileri için Eylem" on Storify] Related posts: Serhatcan Yurdam derledi: Beşiktaş’ta “Harçlar Kaldırılsın” Eylemi Serhatcan Yurdam derledi: #cerkessoykirimieylemi |...
YouTube Becoming Increasingly Vital Platform for News
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For many, YouTube is a beloved repository for humorous content, how-tos and general entertainment. However, YouTube is increasingly becoming a platform for news. Read more news here.
IP protection in the Global Competitiveness Report 2012-13
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Last Wednesday the World Economic Forum, a Swiss non-profit foundation based in Cologny, Geneva, which describes itself as "an independent international organisation committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political,...
The Tea Party in the US (and in Spain)
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By Vincent Navarro In the elections to the Catalan Parliament in 2006 in one of the most conservative newspapers in Catalonia, La Vanguardia, a columnist ideologically close to the banks and large employers, interviewed the Socialist candidate, José...
Will Europe remain ‘Western’?
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Does the financial crisis in Europe represent a deeper geopolitical crisis? If so, what is the nature of this crisis? Is Germany slowly detaching itself from the West? What will the implications be?
To Putin, the Population are Feathered Friends
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Russian President Vladimir Putin used the closing press-conference of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Vladivostok to sting the country's opposition and effectively likening his subjects to a flock of birds, strong or weak, depending on...
Germany's Jews and the Controversy over Circumcision
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A bitter debate over the circumcision of baby boys prompts members of Germany's Jewish community to question whether Jews are still welcome in the country.
Turkey-EU Relations at Critical Crossroad
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No other country aspired membership to the European Union for such a long time as Turkey. It's been twenty-five years since EU-Turkey negotiations began. During this time, the EU was able to exert much positive influence on the country. The social, e...
…..and all that Jazz!
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No long ruminations today. Those of you who follow me on Facebook will know why. I am recovering from sleep deprivation caused by two drunken Ukrainian ladies, one of which was the good lady wife, pillow fighting and wrestling on my settee until...
E.U. Crisis: The Euro Gale Surges Higher and Higher
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The Euro situation in Europe is firmly political, with roots in the reunification of Germany in 1990, a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is claimed France insisted on currency union (Euro) for its approval to that event and that everyone,...
The single currency – making Germany more European or Europe more German?
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Following the fall of the Berlin Wall when Kohl wanted to press ahead with the reunification of Germany, the price of Mitterand’s acceptance of this was to demand that Germany share the power of its currency with the rest of Europe (or more particu...
Book Review: New Urbanism: Life, Work and Space in the New Downtown
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This edited collection examines innovative urban redevelopment projects around Europe and North America which are at the forefront of new urbanism and which are termed New Downtowns. The book addresses major questions such as: What does a sustained u...
Book Review: A New Generation Draws the Line: Humanitarian Intervention and the “Responsibility to Protect”
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How do we understand the ethics of humanitarian intervention in today’s world? After Western intervention in the conflict associated with the Arab Spring, this new edition of Noam Chomsky‘s A New Generation Draws the Line aims to provide ti...
France, Yemen: Vanishing Women
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Eloïse Lagrenée [fr] has posted on her Facebook page a picture by Yemeni photographer Bushra Almutawakel, illustrating how women could vanish into darkness and invisibility, step by step, under fundamentalist pressure and the full niqab. It has bee...
The Gemini Agenda: a little taste.
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An excerpt from my latest enovel, The Gemini Agenda, available from Amazon.com (Just here to the right of the page. See, I’m spoiling you!) Honorius Plenty III, on his twenty-first birthday, had learnt in this very room that his great-grandfa...
Fragments of War – a book review
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When Francois Voltaire stated, “every person is guilty of all the good he didn’t do”, he did not have someone like Trysta Montgomery (Australian humanitarian aid worker) in mind. Although a fictional character in Mishka Gora’s debut n...
Even Tory grassroots think Cameron was wrong to give Hunt health
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Jeremy Hunt’s sudden promotion to Health Secretary raised many eyebrows across Westminster — and it seems that Conservative members and supporters share that concern. In a poll by Tory grassroots website ConservativeHome, voters said by...
