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Riddle me this
Remind me again why the Lisbon Treaty wants to make energy security one of the areas that the EU has co-decision with the national governments?
Is it because the EU is a sinister and shadowy cabal bent on dominating the people of Europe?
Or is it because the country that Europe gets a huge chunk of [...]
The most amazing story you’ve never heard
And the greatest hero you’ve never heard of.
Via Charlie Stross.
The First Casualty
The first casualty of war is the truth. It was true in the time of the classical Greek writer Aeschylus and it’s true today:
Deliberate attempts by the Russian government to exaggerate the number of people killed in the South Ossetia conflict are provoking revenge attacks on Georgian villagers in the breakaway republic, a respected human [...]
This is what an international punishment beating looks like
The Russo-Georgian War (as it seems destined to be called in the history books) continues to escalate. Until today it seemed that the Russians were content to mirror NATO’s actions in Kosovo – occupying the disputed provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, while crippling Georgia’s military and other infrastructure with airstrikes.
Today, though, there are reports [...]
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