All posts tagged Europe & EU

World-wide migration/refugees
December 31, 2015, 1 Comment

UNHCR Mid-Year Trends 2014 Where We’re From Interactive app tracks migrants around the world. This application is ...

Wednesday Night #1756
October 28, 2015, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1756

It’s time to turn our attention to global problems, starting with the refugee crisis and its inevitable impact on ...

Russia in 2014
December 30, 2014, 4 Comments

Aleksei Navalny, Putin Critic, Is Spared Prison in a Fraud Case, but His Brother Is Jailed (NYT) Hours after being spare ...

Wednesday Night #1696
September 3, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1696

As we contemplate the increasingly vitriolic rhetoric surrounding international affairs and domestic politics, we are re ...

Wednesday Night #1682 with David & Terry Jones
May 28, 2014, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1682 with David & Terry Jones

We were deeply touched by the incredible, thoughtful, gift that Somayeh and Hosein brought us from Iran – a replic ...

Greece, EU and world economy 2011-2013
October 12, 2013, 15 Comments

A bit of black humor: Clarke and Dawe: Lending merry-go-round How can broke economies lend money to other broke economie ...

Global Economy 2012
December 31, 2012, 2 Comments

Foreign Policy Economy issue January/February 2012 Debt-ridden and hidebound, Europe may be on the verge of a painful br ...

Wednesday Night #1596
October 3, 2012, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1596

Not debatable: Obama stumbled (Politico) … debate was a substantive break from months of caustic negative campaign ...

Wednesday Night #1593
September 12, 2012, 1 Comment

A number of David Mitchell‘s  Wednesday Night friends gathered to honor his return with particularly stimulating ...

Wednesday Night #1567
March 14, 2012, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1567

Although we tend to complain, with reason, about the increasingly uneven distribution of wealth, there are still amongst ...