The world needs the US to get over its cultural civil war

Guardian, by Timothy G. Ash - Enter Sarah Palin, the Katyusha rocket of red America. (I trust she won’t mind a Russian analogy since, as she has informed us, you - or at least she - can see Russia from Alaska.) The selection of such an obviously under-qualified candidate for vice-president can only [...]

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McCain and W

Nation - I recommend Oliver Stone’s new bio-flick, which brilliantly captures the “banality of evil” that has controlled our political life these past eight years. This phrase from Hannah Arendt’s characterization of the mundane cruelty that so marked the daily experience of European fascism has a frightening applicability to the Republican leadership that [...]

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HTV-ova kola nizbrdo

H-Alter, by Vesna Kesić - Dan D u hrvatskom suočavanju s činjenicom da organizirani kriminal više ne preže ni pred čime, HTV je popratila podjednako neprofesionalno i politički kontraproduktivno kao što su to do sada radila tri temeljna sustava koja bi se trebala uhvatiti u koštac s organiziranim kriminalom – pravosuđe, policija i [...]

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Our leaders are impotent: this crisis is one of democracy

Guardian - The solution is surely for governments to realise that if they are weak, the high priests of high finance are even weaker. The politicians should provide the help the banks need, but with the tightest of strings attached, regulating finance so closely that it can never again gorge itself the way [...]

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Downturn in Decibels, Too

NY Times - Tuesday night’s presidential debate was remarkable for the dourness of its mood, for the frequently subdued demeanors of the candidates even as they tore into each other, which they did with somewhat less vigor and venom than expected, given how little time remains until Election Day, given how nasty [...]

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Novi svetski geopolitički poredak: kraj prvog čina

Republika - Bila bi greška potceniti značaj sporazuma od 9. septembra, između Nikole Sarkozija, Francuska, [...]

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Alatke za momke

Republika by Dubravka Ugrešić - Da, države su igračke za dječake, toys for boys. Najveća ironija – iako dječaci ne razumiju riječ »ironija« – leži u tome da u njihovim državicama ništa nije ni njihovo niti nezavisno. Dječaci pojma nemaju da iza svega stoji nevidljivi gospodar, taj koji im je tutnuo igračke u ruke. [...]

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