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Monthly Archives: March 2013
Urbi et Orbi
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Romae, die ultimo mensis Martii, Anno Domini 2013 URBI ET ORBI Hominibus bonae voluntatis pax sit … Continue reading
Posted in Italy, Politics, Religion, Syria
Tagged Peace on Earth, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Francis I, Urbi et Orbi, Vatican
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A way out for Cyprus: the courts
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 30 March 2013 The news today is that up to 60 % of savings deposits of … Continue reading
Mutual respect and its polar opposite
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 29 March 2013 AN INJUNCTION: VERSION ONE Do others for they would do you. One of … Continue reading
Posted in China, Israel, Philosophy, Religion
Tagged Analects, Confucius, King James Bible, Sermon on the Mount, St Matthew', Zi Gong
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The market rules, okay?
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. Paris, 27 March 2013 LE GOUVERNEMENT IMPUISSANT FACE À LA MONTÉE DU CHOMAGE [Government helpless in … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Europe, France, USA
Tagged Apple, eurozone, Gap, invisible hand, Le Figaro, market economy, Motown
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Caught red-handed with smoking gun
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 26 March 2013 UK LABOUR PARTY LEADER CONDONES SLAVE LABOUR For a long time now the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged Cain and Abel, Edward Miliband, Margaret Thatcher, slave labour, Tony Blair, triangulation, UK Labour Party, workfare
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A Cypriot shipwreck
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Posted in Cyprus, Economics, Europe, Germany, Greece, Politics
Tagged Jeroen Dijsselbloem, Nicos Anastasiades, Othello, triad
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Preacher v. Wall Street
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 24 March 2013 A DEN OF THIEVES 12 And Jesus went into the temple of God, … Continue reading
Power-laundering
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 22 March 2013 This is a post in an occasional series highlighting canny tactics for ambitious … Continue reading
Taking sides
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 21 March 2013 TAKING SIDES In the autumn of 1937 the London-based Left Review asked 148 … Continue reading
Posted in Germany, Ireland, Italy, Literature, Politics, Spain, UK
Tagged Durango, Fascism, Francisco Franco, Guernica, Spanish Civil War
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The Iraq war: 10 years on
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 20 March 2013 THE IRAQ WAR 20 March 2003 to 18 December 2011 On 15 and … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Iraq, UK, USA
Tagged Donald Rumsfeld, Geroge w. Bush, Iraq War, Nour al-Maliki, Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair
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