Mois : août 2015

Published on The Automatic Earth, by Raúl Ilargi Meijer, Aug 15, 2015.

We’re going to try something a little different. Nicole wrote another very long article and I suggested publishing it in chapters; this time she said yes. So in the next five days we will post five different chapters of the article, one on each day, and then on day six the whole thing. That way, you will have some time left over to spend with your families. Continuer la lecture de « The Boundaries and Future of Solution Space – Part 1 »

Published on Wolf Street, by Don Quijones, Aug 13, 2015.

US brokerage firm Schwab Holdings and Malta-based OperaFund Eco-Invest Sicav have lodged a new international complaint against the Spanish State over its recent cuts to renewable energy subsidies. The case will be heard in the International Center for Settlement Investment, a Washington DC-based investment arbitration institution that is a member of the World Bank.   Continuer la lecture de « Spain Gets Bitter Costly Foretaste of its Beloved Trade Pacts »

Published on Al-Ahram weekly online, by Hossam Radman, Aug 13, 2015: about an overland journey from Sanaa to Aden in Yemen through areas held by Houthi and anti-Houthi forces.

… Today, Aden is free. But half its buildings are gone, having been razed to the ground in recent battles. The young men who had crowded the streets to demand secession are nowhere to be seen. They are fighters now, or they are dead. Continuer la lecture de « A Yemen road trip »

Live in Kraków 2015 – FULL, uploaded by Mateusz Godek, June 2015:

• part 1/3, 67.50 min;
• part 2/3, 54.48 min;
• part 3/3, 25.54 min;   Continuer la lecture de « André Rieu »

Published on Spiegel Online International, by Özlem Gezer, Frank Hornig, Martin Knobbe, Walter Mayr, Maximilian Popp and Helene Zuber, Aug 7, 2015 (14 Photos in the Gallery – translated from the German by Christopher Sultan).

Two worlds are colliding on the beaches of the Mediterranean this summer: Vacationers looking for relaxation and migrants seeking relief from poverty or warfare. The result is a moral conundrum for Europe.   Continuer la lecture de « Unsettling Encounters – Tourists and Refugees Cross Paths in the Mediterranean »