Monday, 22 November 2010

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Germany, Ireland, and eurozone politics, Katinka Barysch

A dramatic week of negotiation and political manoeuvring over the fate of Ireland’s banking sector ended late on 21 November 2010 with the announcement that the government led by taoiseach (prime minister) Brian Cowen and finance minister Brian...

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After the party: Dilma and Brazil, Arthur Ituassu

"I would like that every father and mother in the country today look at their daughters and say: 'Yes, the woman can'". No one in this political moment in Brazil can utter these words with more authority than Dilma Rousseff, who on 31...

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Imagine a Scotland where Thatcherism never happened , Gerry Hassan

‘It was twenty years ago today ….’ No, not the latest anniversary of the never-ending sixties nostalgia and the Beatles ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album. Instead, on Monday November 22nd it is the twentieth anniversary of the fall of Margaret Thatcher...

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Gold does not glister, Dennis Nottebaum and Eric Gardner

In this interconnected era, half-truths now evolve into “facts” almost over night. In 1999 during an interview for his ill-fated Presidential campaign American Vice President Al Gore stated that he “took the initiative in creating the...

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Civil resistance and the language of power, Jack DuVall

Who has power?

One of the first people who understood how power could be produced by civil resistance was the great African-American abolitionist, Frederick Douglass. In the years of his work before the American Civil War, which was an age of...

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After Lisbon, what next?, Jana Kobzova

As NATO leaders arrive in Lisbon to approve the Alliance’s new strategic blueprint aimed at enhancing security of Europe, questions remain about who will manage the security inside Europe, and how.

The allies will decide on the future of NATO’s...

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This Enchanted Isle: place, politics and England, Nick Pearce

Ken Worpole's nice post at Our Kingdom about a new book to which he has contributed, Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its Meanings got me thinking.

His concluding remark, that 'attachment to place remains strong, and in exploring that...

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Confusion over US-Israel settlement deal, Oliver Scanlan

Talks between the United States and Israel aimed at revitalising the stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace process are facing mounting difficulties today. The US is seeking to secure Israeli agreement to a renewed 90 day freeze on settlement...

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