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03
Feb
2012
Coriolanus: difficult play, brilliant film

9 days ago by Daniel Hannan

Coriolanus is not an easy play for politicians to watch. From the moment he walks onto the stage, the eponymous general flaunts his fierce contempt for the electorate: What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourselves scabs? His refusal to be pol ...

News - blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news · Rank: 57 · 910 references

02
Feb
2012
LA FARSA DE LA GUERRA JUSTA. (Extracto del libro Kosovo: la coartada ...

9 days ago by Tommaso della Macchina

Semanario serbio [A continuación tenéis un extracto del libro Kosovo: la coartada humanitaria de Aleksandar Vuksanovic, Pedro Lopez Arriba e Isaac Rosa Camacho , Ediciones VOSA, 2001, un libro tan recomendable como los de Michel Collon para entender las guerras yugoslavas (en especial la de Kosovo) ...

VÓRTICE INMEDIAÍSTA - vorticeinmediaista.blogspot.com · Rank: 153,900 · 4 references

Landmines and the Politics of Violent Mapmaking

9 days ago by Matthew Bolton

I was recently asked to review Bosnia Remade: Ethnic Cleansing and Its Reversal, a new book on post-conflict Bosnia and was impressed by its critique of reckless mapmaking. ”Bosnia could only be destroyed,” co-authors Gerard Toal and Carl T. Dahlman argue, “through cartographic reenvisioning and the ...

Political Minefields - politicalminefields.com · 6 references

31
Jan
2012
Oltrecortina: dai datteri di mare della Yugoslavia alla carne slovena

11 days ago by Andrea Soban

Se il governo Monti non avesse aumentato la benzina chissà se avrei mangiato di nuovo le bistecche slovene. Che con la tipica precisione mitteleuropea potrei definire “migliori”. Migliori perché nelle macellerie italiane tagli del genere non esistono (quasi) più, queste sono bistecche che la cottura ...

Dissapore - dissapore.com · Rank: 4,641 · 282 references

29
Jan
2012
Balkan humor

14 days ago by Fabian

Funny to share, I have found it on the net, maybe a bit outdated, but still funny Top Ten Reasons for being a Serb: 1. You are not a Croat. 2. Basketball team. 3. You can choose between several war criminals in Presidential elections. 4. You can enjoy the positive media coverage of your country when ...

Fabian's Blog - blog.fabian-vendrig.eu

20
Jan
2012
Vienna-Yugoslavia-Vienna, January 1982

22 days ago by Alex Robertson Textor

Thirty years ago this week, more or less to the day, my life as a traveler began. My mother yanked me out of school and we set off from Vienna for unknown territory to the south. I’d only been in...

Spendthrift Shoestring - alexrobertsontextor.com/spendthrift_shoestring · 5 references

15
Jan
2012
Croatia observes 20th anniversary of international recognition

28 days ago by Maky

Croatia marks the 20th anniversary of international recognition on Sunday, remembering 15 January 1992 when it was recognised by the member states of what was then the European Community (EC). Germany, which together with the Vatican played a key role in the process, established diplomatic relations ...

World'sTourist - worldstourist.com · Rank: 90,605 · 1 reference

12
Jan
2012
So will English Toryism mimic Milosevic after all?

31 days ago by Mil

I wrote this in early September last year: Whilst the Tories spent years in opposition working out how to recapture England and Wales by hook or by crook, they either neglected to worry about Scotland or - perhaps more likely - discarded its importance to their wider project. Personally, I'm incline ...

21stCenturyFix.org - 21stcenturyfix.org · Rank: 75,245 · 11 references

04
Jan
2012
Cuba - imperialism, bureaucracy, socialism

38 days ago by Choppa

An article in Havana Times dealt with some pressing issues, and got a dismissive "workers control of the workplace" response, so I responded to both the article and the comment. Cuba: Counter-revolution vs. Socialist Utopia http://www.havanatimes.org/?p=58814 Pedro Campos HAVANA TIMES, Jan 1 — The g ...

Eppur si muove - choppam.blogspot.com

03
Jan
2012
Obituary: Kiro Gligorov – President Who Guided Macedonia to Independence

39 days ago by News Desk

Kiro Gligorov passed away on 1st January 2012. The 94-year-old former President was at the helm of the Macedonian nation from 1991 until 1999 and oversaw the transition to independence from Yugoslav rule. The first democratically elected leader of Macedonia, Gligorov served for two terms and even su ...

The Global Herald - theglobalherald.com · Rank: 20,518 · 110 references

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