EU Summit: the hidden agenda
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The big story at the latest crunch EU summit was a new growth pact promoted by new French President Francois Hollande. The mood music was supposed to be upbeat – EU politicians were finally doing something for the common people of Europe, rathe...
Greece: Attack on Athens Microsoft Headquarters
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On June 27, 2012, arsonists attacked Microsoft's headquarters in Athens, Greece. On Athens Indymedia, a group took responsibility [el] for the attack as an “act of war against suspicious silence and general captivity”. Greek-America...
Tony Barber on ACTA
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Tony Barber’s brief blog post on ACTA this week was painfully even-handed, and ended on a most curious note: [I]f the EU wants to be taken seriously in its self-appointed role as the world’s most fervent supporter of a rules-based internati...
take your small cap business public
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There are several reasons this is an especially good time to be a small penny stock business owner. Through stock research one can discover the opportunity to grow a business asset value over time. Warren Buffett along with stock news views a stock p...
Votematch, scopri il partito che ti somiglia. Un questionario sulla politica che cambia
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Article by Tiziana Testa published on La Repubblica, 2 July 2012 Come si stanno schierando i partiti, in questa fase di profonda crisi, sui temi più controversi dell’attualità? La forza politica per cui votiamo è davvero la più vicina alle...
Are cultural mutants the future leaders in the post-national politics of Europe?
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As societies are getting ever more interconnected, to an extent that we as a species have not experienced since our ancestors strolled across African plains, European nation-states and their inter-governmental institutions struggle to catch u...
Roger Bootle and the Eurozone
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Roger Bootle has, in my view, deserved the Wolfson Prize for his answer to the Eurozone crisis http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/9378302/Euro-break-up-Let-Germany-lead-the-northern-core-and-France-the-rest.html, a comment which will com...
NS does a Jimmy Carr
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Sometimes the most newsworthy piece of information in a newspaper report comes all the way at the end. Yesterday, for example, the Railway Gazette informed its readers that the Dutch historic railway operator NS was commissioning a couple of dozen ne...
An evening with the SWP
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By Sacha Ismail from the Workers Liberty website This Thursday I leafleted outside the opening rally of Marxism 2012, the Socialist Workers’ Party’s annual summer school. I was giving out a leaflet about the recent Egyptian presidenti...
Cengiz Aktar: “Tarihi yenmek”
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Tweet“Tarihi yenmek” Savaş diline aşinayız. Doğu Akdeniz’e yönelik tehditler savaş dilinin tonunu ve dozunu yükseltiyor. Bölgesel gücün “gazabı...
Miners’ ‘Black March’ to reach Spain’s capital
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The Spanish miners’ ‘Black March’ will arrive in Madrid Sunday ahead of a major demonstration next week to demand a reversal of cuts to subsidies to the country’s coal industry. Two columns – one from the ‘north&...
“The Newsweek Daily Beast Digital Power Index” “Wikileaks releases the Syria Files – A Cyberculture roundup…
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TweetThe Newsweek Daily Beast Digital Power Index In two short decades, the Internet has changed almost everything about the way we live: The way we communicate, the way we shop, the way we read, the way we love, the way we fight, the way we play. So...
Simple and Predictable Story of Fiscal Bankruptcy in Cyprus
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The Mediterranean island nation is a good case study illustrating the economic dangers of big government and the budget data shows that Cyprus is in trouble because of excessive spending. …...
Do we still know how to define success? (1)
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I am not sure if we ever knew what was the real and profound meaning of success. It is more a soci0-economic norm that got established even before the formation of science. It is something that was mere and pure in the beginning of humanity but got u...
Policy-makers are often unnecessarily timid in imposing climate change regulations
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When governments design policies to reduce firms’ greenhouse gas emissions, are they too lenient on heavy polluters that claim such measures will damage their ability to compete in the global economy? Using European and UK survey data, Ralf Martin...
Croatia: renewed cronyism under leftist government – extreme and brazen
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Corruption, cronyism, and a general lack of transparency stymied meaningful economic reform, as well as much-needed foreign investment in Croatia during the past decade or so. Much of the blame for corruption and cronyism has been directed towards Cr...
Political Crisis in Romania
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A political crisis is brewing in Romania after its President, Traian Basescu, was suspended by the parliament on Friday and is close to being impeached. An article by Claudia Ciobanu on the Inter Press website explains how this crisis is rooted in th...
Only Vatican can change the Catholic Church
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Though the Church is a very diverse organization. Questions: 1. We have seen some strong actions by the Holy See in the recent past. The papacy reprimanded American nuns for their book on sexuality and there was very strong aftermath of the Vati R...
Only Vatican can change the Catholic Church
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Though the Church is a very diverse organization. Questions: 1. We have seen some strong actions by the Holy See in the recent past. The papacy reprimanded American nuns for their book on sexuality and there was very strong aftermath of the Vati R...
A glimpse into the Irish psyche this week.
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Four stories this week, nominally unconnected at first, gave an interesting look into how the Irish psyche works. The first was the news that the FAI pay John Delaney €400k a year (AFTER a pay-cut, still more than President Obama) whilst cutting gr...
Tillväxt- och sysselsättningpakten – landsspecifika rekommendationer
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Sverige har både internationell konkurrenskraft och solida statsfinanser, men är ingen förkämpe för ett förenat Europa. Landsspecifika rekommendationer Tisdagen den 10 juli 2012 antar Ekofinrådet (ekonomiska och finansiella frågor) de lan...
Financial speculation against Europe
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Last week´s European Council paved the way to restore confidence in Europe. We should not lose the momentum created at the summit. Europe should now be committed to better regulating the financial sector. Only by regulating the financial market, Eur...
Water and Green Economy
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A green economy in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication has been one of the two key themes of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), Rio+20 on 20-22 June 2012. In simple terms, a green economy can...
