by Daniel Krähmer | Oct 26, 2011
The most sensible – I almost wrote “the only sensible” – sentence uttered this week sprang from the lips of a 5-year old boy. After the prisoner swap, one of those smart-aleck TV reporters asked him: “Why did we release 1027 Arabs for one Israeli soldier?” He...
by Daniel Krähmer | Feb 14, 2012
‘COP 17 cannot be a global suicide pact: we need to end the apartheid against Nature’Pablo Solón is an international analyst and social activist. He served as chief negotiator for climate change and was ambassador of the Plurinational State of Bolivia to the UN from...
by Daniel Krähmer | Feb 14, 2012
History is littered with the fallout from failed financial schemes that have resulted in massive losses for ordinary people and private institutions, whose investments were plundered by unscrupulous consultants and bankers. Such economic crimes have commonly been...
by Daniel Krähmer | May 29, 2012
If the government was a person, it would be barely able to stand today, having shot itself in both feet over the past week. Timing the introduction of the controversial and bitterly resisted e-tolling system to start the day before a fuel price rise to record levels...
by Daniel Krähmer | Jun 4, 2012
May brought home to the world evidence of the popular rejection of the irrational pursuit of austerity amidst recession in Europe and elsewhere. One telling signal was the victory of Francois Hollande in the French Presidential run-off, making this the first...