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10 hours ago ago from Dreamers Rise
NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World is currently featuring a new exhibit entitled "The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000 - 3500 BC." The objects on display, most or all of which were excavated in Bulgaria and Romania, belong to Neolithic cultures that are still relatively little known here, in part because of their extreme antiquity (they predate the invention of writing), and also no doubt because of the ...
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20 hours ago ago from Marc Seltzer\'s Perspective
By Marc Seltzer; originally published on October 9, 2009, at care2.com President Obama's winning of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize recognizes his multilateral emphasis in resolving international conflicts. Critics, who wonder what he has done, are overlooking the importance of this cooperative approach to the rest of the world. During the first decade of the 21st Century, President Bush rattled Europe with his willingness to take ...
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21 hours ago ago from European Alternatives
Poverty must increasingly be understood as a problem of democracy as well as equality. Only in that way can the most paralysing effects of capitalism be understood as problems of autonomy. Europe could lead the way as a potentially transformative power in leading this new understanding. Niccolo Milanese The European institutions nominate each year as the ‘European Year of ’ The most recent examples are the ‘European Year of ...
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21 hours ago ago from Light in the Forest
"I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views." Barack Obama Recent polls indicate that Obama has lost much of the white middle class vote that allowed him to win the 2008 elections. That he was able to win in the first place was the result of a carefully orchestrated campaign of disinformation that with the collusion of the world media allowed an inexperienced community organizer ...
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19 hours ago ago from Is A Fish A Man ?
Turkey, it seems, wants to be part of the EU but the EU isn’t equally keen to accept it. A recent article in the Guardian explored this ambivalence and its possible consequences. As interesting as the article itself were the comments from readers. These were strongly negative on the whole – much more so than i’d normally expect from a ‘progressive’ newspaper like the Guardian. I was particularly struck by the claim that Turkey is ...
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