President Obama at 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner
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Serbia and Kosovo: A European Success Story? (Trix)
Frances Trix writes in a guest column for Informed Comment On 19 April 2013 the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia, Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic, signed an agreement in the tenth round of negotiations, sponsored by European Union Foreign Policy Chief Baroness Catherine Ashton. The negotiations between Kosovo and Serbia had begun earlier in […]
Bush and the American Right Wing: Top Ten Ways they are Like the Children of an Alcoholic
It is a well-known syndrome in alcoholic and/or abusive families that the child runs to the abusive parent, and makes excuses for him or her. In fact there are a whole set of syndromes afflicting the poor adults who lived through that horror as children. The fawning interviews attending the opening of the George W. […]