December 20, 2008
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is granting more than two dozen so-called “legacy” or “exit” interviews as she prepares to leave Washington and return to Stanford University. Among the traits both Mr. Bush and Dr. Rice share is a tendency to see the glass half full, to dwell on the positive which is clearly evident [...]
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Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical AthensDecember 20, 2008
The galleries of the Onassis Cultural Center in New York will be transformed into evocations of ancient Greek sanctuaries, each filled with artistic masterpieces assembled from international collections, for the major exhibition Worshiping Women: Ritual and Reality in Classical Athens. On view from December 10, 2008, through May 9, 2009, the exhibition brings together 155 [...]
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EU resists push by Islamic states to limit free speech on religionDecember 20, 2008
GENEVA – Islamic proposals to ban criticism of religion, which have gathered strength since the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad two years ago, threaten to derail an already troubled U.N. anti-racism conference planned for next year.
The European Union rejects suggestions by Algeria — backed by other Muslim and African countries — that limits [...]
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Redefining US foreign policy and interests in SE EuropeDecember 20, 2008
June 25, 2008 Dr. George Voskopoulos
For almost half a century of Cold War antagonism US foreign policy played a catalytic role in keeping allies together and providing sound and much required leadership. Joseph Nye rightly suggested that for “almost five decades, the containment of Soviet power provided a North Star to guide American foreign policy”. [...]
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‘Greek Syndrome’ is catching as youth take to streetsDecember 20, 2008
If Greek students sneeze, or catch a whiff of tear-gas, young people take to the streets in France and now Sweden. Now it is all European Youth.
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Σχέσεις Εκκλησίας και κράτουςDecember 20, 2008
Πρόκειται για ζήτημα που θέτουν κόμματα της αντιπολίτευσης, προβάλλουν ορισμένα ΜΜΕ
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Εκκλησία-Κράτος: Και πάλι για χωρισμό;December 20, 2008
Πληροφορούμαι ότι παραμένει στην επικαιρότητα το θέμα του χωρισμού εκκλησίας και κράτους. Έτσι χωρίς φόβο και πάθος θα καταθέσω…
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Why Greece Is Wracked By RiotsDecember 20, 2008
For Athens police, the Exarchia neighborhood is enemy territory. A perennial sanctuary for the capital’s marginalized far-left youth, the central district has been the scene of sporadic anti-government violence for years. But clashes rarely grow as big as those that have wracked Greece for the past two days. They began when police shot dead a [...]
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Church and State could separate in the UKDecember 20, 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury has reignited the debate over the separation of church and state by saying that “it would not be the end of the world if the established church disappeared”.
In an interview with this week’s New Statesman, Rowan Williams argues there is a “certain integrity” to a church free from state sanctions.
Williams, who [...]
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BBC: British Bullshit CorporationDecember 12, 2008
What is it with the BBC? Here is a supposedly reputable news outfit, which spends its time and energy scouring the darkest corners of Russia for something to complain about. This time, having run out of stories dredged from a few disgruntled workers in orphanages, we have a piece about pollution in a remote corner of [...]
