How is it possible I never heard of Wolfgang Streeck before his book Gekaufte Zeit: Die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus was translated in Dutch? This book was translated in English under the title Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.

On August 23, 2014 the anti-Zionist activist and Auschwitz survivor Hajo Meyer passed away in his sleep.

"A game of shark and minnow" is the title of a beautiful multimedia report of The New York Times. It is about a forsaken ship, manned by eight Filipino troops whose job is to keep China in check. I find it all quite amazing.

Long ago Erik Swyngedouw was a fellow student of me. Contrary to me, he had a brilliant career as scientist at the University of Manchester. Above that he has many interesting things to say. Yesterday I found this page annex video on a site of the City University of New York. It is an interesting discussion about the new political movements around the world,