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      • How free is my valley?
        06/26/09
        How free are we? Can we say what we like? Can we publish our ideas without fear of legal punishment? Who decides what is allowable and what should be banned? These questions were of such concern to the framers of the American constitution that the first amendment to that constitution enshrined the f

      • Out of Right field
        06/24/09
        Hungary is an interesting example of the transformation that many Eastern European nations have gone through. One of those changes is a lively multi-party democracy. But interestingly enough it is the far right that has been perhaps the most savvy in using these new freedoms to their advantage as we

      • Out of Right field
        06/24/09
        Hungary is an interesting example of the transformation that many Eastern European nations have gone through. One of those changes is a lively multi-party democracy. But interestingly enough it is the far right that has been perhaps the most savvy in using these new freedoms to their advantage as we

      • A World Apart...
        06/22/09
        In the twenty years since the fall of the Berlin Wall a lot has changed in Germany. But a lot has stayed the same as we learn from the New York Times.


        And the walls came tumbling down… Berlin 2006 © Damaso Reyes


        “But outside big cities like Dresden, Leipzig or Berli

      • All together now...
        06/19/09
        Sometimes a crisis brings people together; more often than not it drives people apart. The global economic crisis™ has served the latter purpose for politicians across Europe as each seemingly seeks his or her own solution to a problem that doesn’t stop at the borderline. More from the New York Time

      • Right turn...
        06/18/09
        The results are in and the big winners in the recent E.U. parliamentary elections, besides Sweden’s Pirate Party of course, is the right, as we learn from Der Spiegel.


        Thank you very much! The Hague 2005. © Damaso Reyes


        “Geert Wilders and his populist Party for Free

      • Vive la rosé !
        06/16/09
        The people of Europe spoke, and the regulators listened!


        Cheers! France 2008. © Damaso Reyes


        “The European Union, bowing to an outcry from traditional vintners, has reversed itself and decreed that the cut-rate technique of mixing red wine with white does not make a

      • The State of the (European) Union
        06/12/09
        And just how are things going in Europe? Well our friends at Der Spiegel have traveled across the E.U. to answer just that question and here are the results! I am sure you will enjoy spending your weekend learning just what they found…


        The tie that binds… © Damaso Reyes

      • Home again, Home again...
        06/10/09
        As you know the current economic crisis has been tough on immigrants of all stripes. We learn of another group which has been hard hit in a great article from The New York Times.


        Leave? But I just got here! Geneva 2007 © Damaso Reyes

        “Trieu Dinh Van’s long journey two yea

      • Pirates on Parade...
        06/09/09
        Far from containing the pirate problem, they are actually winning seats in the European Parliament!


        Hide your women and wine… Berlin 2007 © Damaso Reyes

        “Sweden's pro-file sharing Pirate Party is on its way to Brussels having secured more than 7 percent of the countr

      • Goodbye, Farewell!
        06/05/09
        The global economic crisis ™ has had all kinds of interesting effects, some of which we won’t learn about for many years. Of course there are others which are much more immediate and the money that once fueled our mobility is increasingly drying up, as we learn from the I.H.T.


        But

      • Election time = Party time!
        06/03/09
        It’s election time! At least in Europe where millions of Europeans will soon go to the polls for European Parliamentary elections. But there are big concerns over turnout, as we learn from Der Spiegel.


        “What do you mean ‘throw the bums out’ ?” Vienna 2008. © Damaso Reyes

      • A Big Birthday!
        06/01/09
        Birthdays are always a good way to start the week and why not begin with a really big one? We learn more from National Public Radio…


        I said Happy Birthday! London 2005. © Damaso Reyes


        “Defiantly low-tech yet accurate to the second, London's Big Ben is having it

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