Category Archives: The world we live in Now

Observations and reflections of sweeping change

Too big to be true ?

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Michaela

By Dennis Overby Roll over, Einstein ? The physics world is abuzz with news that a group of European physicists plans to announce Friday that it has clocked a burst of subatomic particles known as neutrinos breaking the cosmic speed … Continue reading →

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Illusions and Plunder

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Michaela

Meltdown-The men who crashed the world The first of a four-part investigation into a world of greed and recklessness that brought down the financial world.

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Peace Now, or Never

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Michaela

By Ehud Olmert As the United Nations General Assembly opens this year, I feel uneasy. An unnecessary diplomatic clash between Israel and the Palestinians is taking shape in New York, and it will be harmful to Israel and to the … Continue reading →

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Heureka

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Michaela

Greek Finance Minister, Evangelos Venizelos: “We haven’t realised the dangers. The dangers are not that our income has been reduced, the danger is not that pensions are being reduced or the value of property. The dangers are not that the … Continue reading →

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Perfect Storm

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

By Mark Levine Perhaps the title isn’t fair. The storm that awaits Barack Obama at the UN is not entirely of his own creation. He did not create half a century of US foreign policy based on support for authoritarianism … Continue reading →

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The dogmatist

Posted on September 20, 2011 by Michaela

From ” Der Spiegel” One thing is already clear: The two men will be all smiles when they meet. If all goes according to plan, German President Christian Wulff will greet the pope at 11:15 a.m. this Thursday in front … Continue reading →

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Debt, division & delay

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

…because we just don’t know what to do….meanwhile the Swiss were close to ban investment banking after UBS lost about 2.3 bio Euros on unauthorised trades.

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Bleeding

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Michaela

By Paul Krugman Doctors used to believe that by draining a patient’s blood they could purge the evil “humors” that were thought to cause disease. In reality, of course, all their bloodletting did was make the patient weaker, and more … Continue reading →

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Abandon realism

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

By David Deutsch It was recently discovered that the universe’s expansion is accelerating, not slowing, as was previously thought. Light from distant exploding stars revealed that an unknown force (dubbed “dark energy”) more than outweighs gravity on cosmological scales. Unexpected by … Continue reading →

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Unglued

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Michaela

By STEVEN LEE MYERS By Stephen Lee Myers While the popular uprisings of the Arab Spring created new opportunities for American diplomacy, the tumult has also presented the United States with challenges — and worst-case scenarios — that would have once … Continue reading →

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