The Economist | Buttonwood: Tough choices
The Economist | Buttonwood: Tough choices http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21695554-state-spending-will-be-hard-cut-given-rising-inequality-tough-choices?frsc=dg%7Cd
En España tenemos horarios muy raros|El País
Mientras en España vemos El Ministerio del Tiempo o el programa líder de audiencia de la temporada, en Alemania están ya descansando en la cama. En Italia, donde han cenado…
Improving how cities are administrated with IT
A project which should be copied in Europe, where often a lot of money is spent on systems which are poorly designed but, above all, the underlying bureaucratic procedures are…
Islamism and the Left | Dissent Magazine
I frequently come across leftists who are more concerned with avoiding accusations of Islamophobia than they are with condemning Islamist zealotry. This is an odd position with relation to the…
‘Occidentophobia’: The Elephant in the Room
“The West” is regularly seen as some combination of loss of moral values, imperialism and drone attacks — a description reminiscent of the Star Trek Borg species that assimilates into…
Gary Hart: SPQA|Huffington Post
Good catchy tile: SPQA, as I was about to flag the spelling error. What the post doesn’t mention is the demographic bomb which both the Romans and our civilisation is…
Older Students Learn for the Sake of Learning
Many retirees, not trying to earn degrees, participate in programs like the Osher Lifelong Learning Institutes, which are affiliated mostly with colleges and universities. Source: Older Students Learn for the…
El Pais: Soldados sin riesgo; por Javier Marías
Las intenciones del Daesh están son meridianas si por ellos fuera, llevarían a cabo el mayor genocidio de la historia Source: Columna | Soldados sin riesgo; por Javier Marías
How Has Russia Weaponized Information? | CEPA
In CEPA’s latest report, Edward Lucas and Ben Nimmo describe the Kremlin’s ongoing disinformation campaign to subvert both international onlookers and its domestic population. CEPA Infowar Paper No. 1 describes…
The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Adam S. Hersh – Project Syndicate
As negotiators and ministers from the US and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership, some…