Category Archives: COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Mr Micawber

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 May 2012   GREECE Income Yesterday 10 May 2012 bankupt Greece received a bailout … Continue reading

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Arsonists putting out fires

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 May 2012 Apologies to readers outside Europe, but we continue to blog on the Greek … Continue reading

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Splitism

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.  9 May 2012 Since the birth of socialism in the mid-19 C, the left has been … Continue reading

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Age: drachma 3000 years, euro 10

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 May 2012 Two leftwing political parties in two different European countries have garnered unprecedented popular … Continue reading

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Come back, Ephialtes!

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 May 2012 ATHENS, 2012 Ephialtes! thou shouldst be living at this hour: the Hellenic … Continue reading

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Justifiable apathy

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 May 2012 VOTER BOYCOTT The voter apathy in the UK local elections on Thursday 3 … Continue reading

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Local and global

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.   4 May 2012 Do countries exist in a globalised word? This is the question posed by … Continue reading

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International law = imperialism

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 May 2012 “Imperialism didn’t end. Now we call it international law.” This is the headline … Continue reading

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Not a happy bunny

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 Μay 2012 ῾Εξηκοντούτης  Διονύσιος  ἐνθάδε  κεῖμαι Ταρσεύς ,  οὐ γήμας .  αἴθε δὲ μήδ᾽ ὁ … Continue reading

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Flower blossom

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 April 2012 Letting a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend is … Continue reading

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