Fukuyama on Conservatives and the state
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I managed to get hold of a copy of the Financial Times today and so was able to read a thought-provoking co-ed article by Francis Fukuyama, entitled ‘Conservatives must fall back in love with the state’, and which coincidentally covered s...
Israel Creates A New University
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A little less than two weeks ago, a committee headed up by former Israeli Supreme Court Justice Edmund Levy and appointed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, released the Levy Report. The Levy Report attempted to define, once and for all, the legal standing...
The Dark Knight Rises
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Following what the American media have dubbed the Aurora massacre, the President has declared a state of mourning and all US flags are flying at half mast. There is a palpable sense of a shocked and introspective nation. Newspapers and televisions s...
Lol Coxhill: top geezer
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George W. Lowen Coxhill (19 September 1932 – 10 July 2012), generally known as Lol Coxhill, was an English free improvising saxophonist and raconteur. He played the soprano or sopranino saxophone Lol Coxhill and Lu Edmunds met whilst bot...
Jens Rohde, Master of the univers [sic]
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The European Parliament has introduced some new and essentially sensible rules, asking MEPs to declare their financial interests and business dealings prior to their time as MEPs. This is important, as the what a MEP did prior to being elected can im...
Jens Rohde, Master of the univers [sic]
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The European Parliament has introduced some new and essentially sensible rules, asking MEPs to declare their financial interests and business dealings prior to their time as MEPs. This is important, as the what a MEP did prior to being elected can im...
Fostering Racism in Europe
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Greece is regarded the first victim of the financial and political crisis in terms of racist feelings. The recent elections o June 17th have led to the rise of the racist party called Xrysi Aygi which expresses all aspects and policies against immigr...
European Banking Union Step Toward “Transfer Union”
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In many European countries, two important but ailing institutions are currently interlinked: sovereign states and national banks. The interdependency between them explains in large measure why the continent’s leaders are contemplating a banking uni...
U.S. Financial Support for Democratic Transition in the Middle East
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Currently, a key question for U.S. policymakers is how to engage with and/or support new governments in Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia. For those of you interested in the topic of U.S. foreign assistance to the Middle East, I strongly recommend a new Proj...
Why Experienced Veterinarians Are Needed
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Oceanside veterinarians are medical experts specializing in the care of animals. These experts may focus on general practice tending to all kinds of species or they may also concentrate on certain types such as farm animals, felines, canines, horses,...
Poland Welcomes Romney’s Visit
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Poland's government welcomed Mitt Romney's planned visit to the country in late July, when the presumptive Republican presidential nominee is set to meet the Polish leadership and former president Lech Walesa on a leg of his European tour.
Fostering Racism in Europe
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Greece is regarded the first victim of the financial and political crisis in terms of racist feelings. The recent elections o June 17th have led to the rise of the racist party called Xrysi Aygi which expresses all aspects and policies against immigr...
Un ministre de la Justice pour l’Europe ?
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Oui, certainement, mais il existe déjà et son titulaire est Viviane Reding, vice présidente de la Commission européenne et en charge précisément du porte feuille de la Justice, domaine où elle excelle. C’est Viviane Reding qui demande que so...
Syria at the Boiling Point
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Syria appears to be reaching a boiling point. A series of significant events and trends have emerged in the past month. Heavy fighting has erupted in Damascus, the capital, and Aleppo, the largest city—both places of privilege and, until now...
Subversive festival: occupy movement comes to Zagreb
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‘Another Balkans is possible,’ was one of the slogans at the Zagreb subversive festival held in May 2012. From protesting the rise in tuition fees to mass occupations against the rampant urbanisation and real-estate speculation in the capital cit...
Subversive festival: occupy movement comes to Zagreb
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‘Another Balkans is possible,’ was one of the slogans at the Zagreb subversive festival held in May 2012. From protesting the rise in tuition fees to mass occupations against the rampant urbanisation and real-estate speculation in the capital cit...
America’s Corsican connection
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Henri Malosse, currently President of the European Economic and Social Committee’s Employers’ Group and Corsican in origin, has reminded me in an e-mail of America’s Corsican connection, in the person of Pasquale Paoli (picture). I...
A future Mall for Brussels?
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Whilst on the civic architecture theme, we are all familiar with the images of America’s new Presidents taking the oath high up on the Capitol’s west front, with the crowds and the flags stretching down Capitol Hill and away along the Ma...
Cinema roundup including “21 Gorgeous film logos and icons for your design inspiration
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Tweet 21 Gorgeous film logos and icons for your design inspiration from The Next Web by Harrison Weber Cahiers du Cinema | SUPPLÉMENT TURQUIE from Turkish Cinema Newsletter by M.A.M Cahiers du cinéma n°647, pp.X-XII SUPPLÉMENT TUR...
Washington’s Civic Architecture – the Senate and the Supreme Court
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The political science anorak in me has become increasingly fascinated by Washington DC’s civic architecture. A friend once told me about the symbolism of the positioning of the various federal institutions. This afternoon I went to see about so...
Gotovina and Markac ICTY Appeals take an unexpected development
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ICTY Appeal Chamber July 20 ordered Prosecutor in Ante Gotovina and Mladen Markac case that: The Prosecution file by 10 August 2012 a submission explaining whether, in the event that Gotovina and Markac are not found liable for unlawful artillery att...
Isn’t Soylent Green a Place Name Somewhere in the UK?
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In eastern Europe, there was a popular joke people told: “if the desert was made a socialist state, there would soon be a shortage of sand.”Socialism creates shortages. Socialize medicine enough, and you create a reason not to treat people. Soo...
Megatons to Megawatts is 90% Complete
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One of the greatest problems in the post-Cold War era has been what to do with the leftover highly enriched uranium [HEU], also known as weapons-grade uranium. When the US and USSR were engaged in the nuclear arms race, tons of the stuff was produced...
Is the EU losing Bulgaria and Romania?
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When you’re in an air balloon and it looses altitude, you have to dump some ballast. Or when your boat risks capsizing, you throw in the sea whatever is at hand and is not essential. The EU has enough problems handling the eurozone crisis. The euro...
Is the EU losing Bulgaria and Romania?
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When you’re in an air balloon and it looses altitude, you have to dump some ballast. Or when your boat risks capsizing, you throw in the sea whatever is at hand and is not essential. The EU has enough problems handling the eurozone crisis. The euro...
Zagreb’s alternative zones of inspiration
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What comes to mind when you think of Croatia, aside from the beautiful coastal scenery and maybe some good vacation deals on 'lastminute.com'? You may not think of it at first, but the Croatian capital is on its way to being considered an important a...
Zagreb’s alternative zones of inspiration
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What comes to mind when you think of Croatia, aside from the beautiful coastal scenery and maybe some good vacation deals on 'lastminute.com'? You may not think of it at first, but the Croatian capital is on its way to being considered an important a...
Moldova: Communism - Is It Really Over Now?
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On June 12, Moldova’s parliament condemned the Soviet totalitarian communist regime and prohibited the use of the communist symbols, the hammer and sickle. Diana Lungu reports on the online reactions to this important yet belated decision.
Greece: Fake Dyslexia Certificates for Children
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In ‘Where Everything Is Possible‘ [el], blogger Theodoris Georgakopoulos criticizes the news that Children's Hospital employees in Athens, Greece, have been involved into issuing fake documents certifying dyslexia. He mainly puts the...
Moving To France- A Wonderful Experience
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At present, plenty of people are moving to France from UK and a lot of other countries too. A number of conditions are there for people moving to another nation. Some are moving for pleasure, some for business and some to make it their home. Whatever...
The UK’s European Union Act is a good example of a bad law
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Jo Murkens argues that the UK’s European Union Act of 2011 should be viewed as a failed statute. Amongst other flaws the Act does not truly empower the people and is legally inconsistent. If there was one area in which the two … Continu...
Smithsonian – the National Museum of the American Indian
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After the Air and Space Museum, we went to the National Museum of the American Indian. I sense that, all through this ‘grand tour’ that we have embarked upon, the ghosts of America’s original inhabitants will never be very far away.
Russia: A Conspiracy Theory Against United Russia in Yaroslavl's LJ Case
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Writing in the politics-ru LiveJournal community [ru], user oficer2001 [ru] alleges that pat-index, the blogger at the center of the case in Yaroslavl (where LJ was banned by court order), is actually a United Russia member, raising concerns that...
