If you’re one of those cheering for Steve Bannon’s getting fired and believe this will mean change inside the Trump administration, you’re probably not seeing the whole picture.
Ayer fue un día triste para el socialismo español. Ayer, mientras seguíamos discutiendo sobre un proceso interno que cada…
Angela Merkel has just announced to re-run for the German Chancellorship in the upcoming Fall 2017 general election. If she wins she can prolong her reign, which started in 2005, a total of 16 years, the…
“Peaceful” civil disobedience is always linked in the minds with Mahatama Ghandi’s march to the sea in protest of the British monopoly on salt, his most courageous act of civil disobedience against the famous British rule in India in 1930…
When we see the word ‘Revolution’ we think of the French or Americans in the 18th century. We think of war, uprising, political turmoil, not 21st century Ireland.
The Revolution I speak of has a few factors.
On 5 November 2008 I woke up with eyes full of emotional tears. Barack Obama, a charismatic Senator of mixed background, with a beautiful wife and two wonderful young daughters, had inspired millions and had just been elected President of the United States of America.
The Middle East is going up in flames but the Arabian Peninsula has for years been the prosperous exception. This is now changing. The countries of the GCC are experiencing decreasing demand for oil which is putting pressure on prices…
During the last week I had a chance to spend a few days in Brussels between 17th and 20th of October as a part of the Graduates of Democracy delegation to a series of meetings. I was happy to see…
Unemployment. High deficit. Public debt. Bankruptcy. Recession. Troika.
I am sure at least one of these small, yet, very serious words come to mind when you ask any European about Portugal. The financial crisis…