Category Archives: COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Knobbly carrots

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.  13 January 2013 FRANKENSTEIN CROPS “NOT NEEDED” Letter in the London Guardian on 12 January 2013 … Continue reading

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Organise!

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.  12 January 2013 THERE IT IS And if we don’t fight 
if we don’t resist 
if … Continue reading

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Guantanamera

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.  11 January 2013 Technical note: readers can hear a version of Guantanamera sung by singer Julio … Continue reading

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Last resting-place

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.  10 January 2013   Wo?   Wo wird einst des Wandermüden Letzte Ruhestätte sein? Under Palmen … Continue reading

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Pain in Spain

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.  8 January 2013 EUROPE EXACERBATES THE PAIN IN SPAIN “The position of Andalucía’s 200,000 agricultural workers … Continue reading

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Things ain’t wot they used to be

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.  7 January 2013 ……ἐν δὲ τοῖς κατὰ τὴν πόλιν αὐτὴν θεάσασθ᾽ ὁποῖοι, ἔν τε τοῖς κοινοῖς … Continue reading

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Adieu la voiture! Adieu la boutique!

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.  6 January 2013 “I can sympathize with the French sense of loss at the defeat of … Continue reading

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Participative democracy

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.  5 January 2013   “Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”   Comment by … Continue reading

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Wolves in sheep’s clothing

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.  3 January 2013 SOCIAL DEMOCRATS: WOLVES IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING In the developed western world the biggest … Continue reading

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What is life without a dream?

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.  1 January 2013 We ended the year 2012 yesterday by citing the last stanza of the … Continue reading

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