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Gästskribenter, In English, Stat och Samhälle | Monday, April 26th, 2010 | 1 Kommentar »
During the early stages of World War I, 24th of April 1915 to be precise, the Minister of Domestic affairs, Talaat Pasha of the falling Ottoman Empire gave orders to arrest and execute nearly 250 intellectual Armenians. The following years about 1,5 million Armenians and other Christian minorities were massacred, starved, drowned or forced on endless marches leading to their deaths. The reason for the killings and abuses was to unify the future Turkish nation. To accomplish this goal, the area was pretty much emptied of its Christian minorities by 1923. (more…)
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Ferencz Thuroczy, In English, Konflikt, Stat och Samhälle | Friday, April 23rd, 2010 | 1 Kommentar »
Robert Fisk at Grand Hotel in Lund. Photo: Björn Suomivuori
This it the second part of the interview with Dr. Robert Fisk where he talks about propaganda, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and the current administration in the US. If you haven’t read the first part you can find it here.
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Ferencz Thuroczy, In English, Konflikt, Stat och Samhälle | Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 | 1 Kommentar »
Robert Fisk in Lund. Photo: Björn Suomivuori
I met Dr. Robert Fisk on a sunny Tuesday in Lund. He works as a foreign correspondent for the Independent, and has so many awards in journalism that it is almost impossible to list them all. He has been elected for those awards for a good reason; his forcefull fluency of language and keen level of perception is rivaled by few. He covers the Middle East and does so with an accuracy that upsets most media-outlets that wish to stay in line with governments and officials. Nobody is immune from his criticism. He observes and sides with the victim. This interview shows just that. This is more than a grain of truth - it is a truth you will not find the New York Times.
See also: Robert Fisk’s commentaries in the Independent.
Dagens Nyheter review on Robert Fisk’s book “The Great War for Civilisation”
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Ekonomi och Handel, In English, Stat och Samhälle | Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 | Inga Kommentarer »
This year is the UN International Year of Biodiversity and
Further reading:
UNEP International Year of Biodiversity , EUActive.com , EU Biodiversity Homepage
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Gästskribenter, In English, Stat och Samhälle | Thursday, April 15th, 2010 | 5 Kommentarer »
In today’s day and age we face a new wave of right wing movements throughout the western world. The twenties saw a similar movement brewing in Europe, but at that time it was the Nazi party in Germany and its anti-Semitic ideology. Today we face it in the form of islamophobia, and though many people do not consider it to be the same, this article aims to point out some elementary similarities between the two historical parallelles.
For further reading: Islamofobi är ett skrämselord (DN)
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EU, Ekonomi och Handel, Eva Benkova, Stat och Samhälle | Tuesday, April 13th, 2010 | Inga Kommentarer »
Presidents of the Visegrad 4 countries. From the left: Václav Klaus, Ivan Gašparovič, Lech Kaczyński, László Sólyom
Inglorious Czech presidency of the EU, general economic recession, Hungarian financial problems, corruption, difficulties in law enforcement and public manifestations of radicalism. These are just some of the headlines from Central European region, which you might remember from the near past. Three out of Visegrád 4 countries - Hungary, Czech Republic and Slovakia - are holding elections in the coming two months. Hungarians voted last weekend in the first round. The concentration of this possible turning point in politics is an interesting opportunity to stop for a moment and consider the development in Central Europe during the last four years - with all its complexities.
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Mårten Ahlstrand, Stat och Samhälle | Thursday, April 8th, 2010 | 2 Kommentarer »
Det har länge varit en självklarhet att i nordeuropeiska sammanhang associera Silvio Berlusconis namn med korruption, ohederlighet och dåligt styrande. Ändå envisas ett stort antal italienare, de flesta av dem förmodligen rationellt tänkande individer, att rösta på honom. Ett stort antal människor måste resonera i banor som: “Berlusconi är den bäste mannen för Italien, till honom vill jag anförtro att bygga de land mina barn ska leva i.” Här finns en skillnad mellan den bild av Berlusconi som vi i Sverige presenteras för och hur han upplevs i sitt hemland. Den här artikeln syftar till utforska den skillnaden. Det här är en artikel om det positiva med Silvio Berlusconi.
För vidare läsning: Framgång för Berlusconi i regionvalen (The Guardian)
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