Boko Haram massacres and the media

Mon 12/01/2015

Boko Haram has been busy these days, massacring whole villages, with hundreds or even thousands of victims. Some voices on social sites complain that we are dedicating so much time to the Paris terrorist attacks […]

Mario Vargas Llosa: Las guerras del fin del mundo

Sun 11/01/2015

Going back over Peruvian writer’s, Nobel Prize winner Mario Vargas Llosa opinion piece in El Pais in Sept 2014 about democracy under attack from the new barbarians, I noticed that, unfortunately, he was being excessively […]

FP: Je Suis Charlie (Until Je Get Scared)

Sat 10/01/2015

Micheal Weiss in Foreign Policy: Je Suis Charlie (Until Je Get Scared) Michael Weiss gets it about right, except that he should mention that Charlie Hebdo published regularly much fiercer cartoons lampooning Christians or Jews. Not […]

Whitewash these bloodstains, hurry up

Thu 08/01/2015

Whenever there is an outrage,  you can count on this kind of news story, social media post or comment: 1. Whitewashers and conspiracy theorists who claim that the victims shot themselves to frame their attackers […]

Krugman: Being Bad Europeans – NYTimes.com

Wed 03/12/2014

David Krugman: Being Bad Europeans – NYTimes.com One of the fathers of the euro, Romano Prodi, says clearly that the euro was only a step towards further political integration. The fact that the process was frozen […]

Renzi e l’eccesso di comunicazione

Sun 14/09/2014

Si sentono lamentele, soprattutto dalla sinistra, che Renzi é troppo presente da tutte le parti, che si vede troppo, comunica troppo. Non é quello che ci hanno detto gli elettori italiani, quando hanno votato Berlusconi […]

Death penalty

Fri 02/05/2014

Goggle+ post: Death penalty in the USA Nicodin Bogdan: Methods of Capital Punishment in the United States since 1887 . Such a shame you can’t choose firing squad anymore. And really, all of these execution methods are […]

Hungarian elections April 2014

Mon 07/04/2014

Seeing a swastika used during an electoral campaign in Europe (or anywhere else) in 2014 proves that we have failed dismally in allowing it to happen, with nazis raising their head again. We should have […]

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