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• Reading List: July.

  Non-Fiction: Tim Soutphommasane: Reclaiming Patriotism. Nation-Building for Australian Progressives.Stephen Covey: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Charles... Read more

  Posted on 31 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 23/7/15

  Politics: Columbia Journalism Review points out that the complaint that Laura Poitras filed to gain access to the personal data that government agencies... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• On Europe

  In a detailed exploration of Ukrainian history and philosophy, The New York Review of Books asks questions about the future of Europe that go beyond simply... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 17/7/15

  Politics: Mary Kaldor on Greece and the future of democracy in Europe: But globalisation is not the only reason. The erosion of substantive democracy also has t... Read more

  Posted on 17 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• More Perspectives on Greece

  “The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages,” Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told a news conference, explaining her decision to accept the deal and... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  Bi-continental scatterbrain with a focus on women centric television shows, currently reviewing the third season of Orange is the New Black, and I will be... Read more

  Posted on 12 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Perspectives on Greece

  This brings us to the crux of the matter: Tsipras and the former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis, who resigned on 6 July, talk as if they are part of an open... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Das Lied Zum Sonntag

  Son Lux - You Don't Know Me[via Flavorwire]You see my face in the starsYou write my name on your wallsI feel you tracing my scarsI see you down on your... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 1/7/15

  Politics: On Greece: And, sure enough, what we are seeing now, 16 years after the eurozone institutionalised those relationships, is the antithesis of democracy... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - Do You Ever Wonder If You’re Overplaying Your Hand?

  

  Orphan Black: 3x10 History Yet to Be Written.Every time Orphan Black gears up towards its great, crazy moments it takes a respite to offer what makes its... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• On Greece

  She [Christine Legarde] was offering not a solution but a narrative: the Greeks were in this situation because they were bad people. They wanted a beneficent... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Equal Dignity Under the Law

  “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times,” Kennedy wrote. “The limitation of marriage to opposite-sex couples may long have... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 25/6/15 Compact Version

  Politics: The New York Times maps refugee movements around the globe. An interview with Ratna Omidvar about how the Canadian migration regime differs from... Read more

  Posted on 25 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Random Mixtapes - a False Sense of Security

  

  Summer Sommerkaki king | oobleck. sufjan stevens | should have known better. sharon van etten | i always fall apart. jamie xx feat. oliver sim | stranger in a... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 19/6/15

  Politics: The Dominican Republic has decided to strip 210000 people of Haitian decent of their citizenship. The country has a long history of ethnic cleansing... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - I Am a Mother Now and Walk a Different Path.

  Orphan Black: 3x09 Insolvent Phantom of Tomorrow.It is the task of statesmanship to mold, to balance, and to integrate these and other forces, new and old,... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - You Can’t Crush the Human Spirit.

  Orphan Black: 3x08 Ruthless in Purpose, and Insidious in Method.There is a different side to the idea of extending your definition of family and making your... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Links 11/6/15

  Politics: Edward Snowden with an op-ed for the NY Times in the wake of the USA Freedom Act: Privately, there were moments when I worried that we might have put... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• The 'Pretty Little Liars' Will Grow Stronger in the Broken Places

  The Liars escaped the doll house, but in a way, that only worked as a reminder that it was only a metaphor for what their lives have been like this whole time. Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO

• Orphan Black - You’re with Family Now.

  

  Orphan Black: 3x07 Community of Dreadful Fear and Hate.I will not make boundaries my agenda. Instead I would … I would… family. That’s my agenda.Sometimes famil... Read more

  Posted on 09 June 2015 BOOKS, ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, TV & VIDEO