Seeds of spring - A rebellion against censorship

Eurozine - When Ivan Klíma and fellow writers like Milan Kundera, Ludvík Vaculík, and Pavel Kohout stood up against censorship in Cekoslovakia at the 1967 Writers’ Congress, the literary weekly Literární noviny, an “opposition mouthpiece”, was disbanded by the regime. Yet the seed was sown for the Prague Spring of 1968.

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How Bretton Woods reshaped the world

BBC - In the summer of 1944, delegates from 44 countries met in the midst of World War II to reshape the world’s international financial system. The location of the meeting - in the plush Mount Washington Hotel in rural Bretton Woods, New Hampshire - was designed to ensure that the delegates would [...]

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Can the Climate Survive the Financial Crisis?

Spiegel - Just as the world gathers in Poland to come up with a new climate treaty to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the global financial meltdown threatens to torpedo the effort. But could a world recession actually help the climate?

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