Lula da Silva says this problem was caused by white men with blue eyes. That lets both of us off the hook Several Latin American leaders have reported the same disturbing hallucination. A rumpled fat man with a very large head, dressed in a cheap suit and badly-knotted tie turns up unannounced and tries [...]
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Europe is failing two life-and-death tests. We must act together, now
January 9, 2009 – 12:44 pm
Weak, divided, incoherent, hypocritical and infuriating – that’s how you hear the EU described privately in Beijing and Washington. The events of this first week of 2009 suggest that its critics are right. By Timothy Garton Ash. Look at the mess we’re in. Europe faces two acute crises that threaten both our interests and our values. [...]