Category Archives: COUNTRIES/INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Pinocchio

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.   19 March 2010 HIPPOCRATES A flagship bill to privatise Britain’s publicly funded national health service (NHS) … Continue reading

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Nuremberg and Athens

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.   17 March 2010 Great umbrage is taken by Antigone1984 at the mockery of the latest Greek … Continue reading

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Syria threatened by blitz of conferences

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.   16 March 2010 CONFERENCES TO BE HELD AS LONG AS THE SLAUGHTER CONTINUES A cunning ploy … Continue reading

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Red carpet

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.   ANGLO-US TALKS FOCUS ON RETREAT FROM AFGHANISTAN 14 March 2012 We refer below to the writings … Continue reading

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Calvin still rules, OK?

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 March 2010   If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be … Continue reading

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Selling off the family silver

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Cosa Nostra

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Watch out, Martians!

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 March 2012 STAR WARS Here we go again. According to yesterday’s Guardian, UK Prime Minister … Continue reading

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A Georgian joke

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 March 2012 იოსებ ბესარიონის ძე სტალინი In a letter to the Guardian yesterday alluding to … Continue reading

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Cable cars: theory v. praxis

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 March 2012 INTERVENTION IN FREE MARKET BY GOVERNMENT OPPOSED TO INTERVENTION When you get … Continue reading

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