Foreign Policy:
The Top 10 Craziest Things Ever Said During a U.N. Speech
David Mitchell:
If academic endeavour had always been vetted in advance for practicality, we wouldn’t have the aeroplane or the iPhone, just a better mammoth trap.
Richard Laming
It is ironic that the people who complain most about the complexity of the treaty are the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Italy’
Quotes of the week (VIII)
Diplomacy vs. Silvio Berlusconi
A typical “Berlusconi”: First he annoyed the Queen during the G20 summit in London, today at the NATO summit Ms Merkel was not amused…
Silvio Berlusconi and his diplomatic incidents - a never ending story? In other countries any of these “jokes” would have resulted in an immediate resignation (+ all the problems regarding human rights, media, [...]
Slavoj Žižek: Every state needs its own Balkan
“Every state needs its own Balkan”
With this words philosopher Slavoj Žižek started his lecture on ideology and the fall of state borders. The lecture was given in Italian Gorizia which was until 2007 a border town with Slovenia and is a well known habitat of Italians and Slovenes. From this point of [...]
Kosmolinks #9
Goodbye 2007, hello 2008!
So, what happened last year? … of course a non exhaustive list
The Top 10 Stories You Missed in 2007
An Interview with the “Person of the Year 2007″: Putin and the Time Magazine
Can it get any better? well, we have to wait and see:
Awaiting us in 2008…
The world in 2008: a [...]
