Oude Zak 000
Expatriate Life
Me I and Myself
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The Guardian- DWP’s unchecked database leaves tens of thousands of carers at risk of debt
- ‘You wanted money, right?’: Trump team tries to dent Stormy Daniels’ testimony
- ‘We will fight with our fingernails’ says Netanyahu after US threat to curb arms
- Olympiakos v Aston Villa: Europa Conference League semi-final, second leg – live
- Shirley Conran, campaigner and ‘queen of the bonkbuster’, dies aged 91
- Revealed: how ‘fun’ social media accounts direct fans to betting giant
- Government triggers crisis measure to ease prison overcrowding
- Hunter Biden loses bid to dismiss gun charges, clearing way for June trial
- Man arrested on suspicion of murder after woman stabbed to death in north London
- Telegraph takeover: Zucker ‘would have done bid differently’ in hindsight
- The Economist
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- Le Monde Diplomatique
- La culture du consentement
- Des JO « responsables », un chantier inachevé
- Au Royaume-Uni, la rue avec Gaza, les élites derrière Israël
- France et Sud global, rendez-vous manqué ?
- Loin du « foot business »
- De la guerre comme matériau romanesque
- De douleur et d'espoir
- Pour les égarés
- Si le ciel est vide
- Une invention fulgurante
- El Pais- Internacional
- Un periodista que viajó a Milán para cubrir el Valencia-Atalanta, positivo por coronavirus
- Mapa de la expansión y claves para entender el coronavirus de Wuhan
- El turismo italiano se resiente; España mira expectante
- “La magnitud del problema del coronavirus no será diferente a una gripe”
- Seis italianos encerrados por partida doble
- Trump nombra al vicepresidente Pence a cargo de la crisis del coronavirus
- El coronavirus de Wuhan | Japón cerrará todos sus centros escolares hasta fin de marzo
- El Gobierno salva el primer escollo de los Presupuestos gracias a ERC
- La mesa de diálogo se reunirá mensualmente y los acuerdos serán “en el marco de la seguridad jurídica”
- Así avanzan las encuestas en Galicia y País Vasco
- Foreign Affairs
- Defending Taiwan by Defending Ukraine
- Russia’s Pro-Putin Elites
- East Asia’s Coming Population Collapse
- Why Ukraine Should Keep Striking Russian Oil Refineries
- America’s China Strategy Has a Credibility Problem
- The Secret to Japanese and South Korean Innovation
- Will Saudi Arabia Get the Bomb?
- Biden’s Incomplete Industrial Policy
- Don’t Hype the Disinformation Threat
- The Real Motives for China’s Nuclear Expansion
- Prof John Peterson Post Feed
- PIR 4th Year UG Dissertation Retreat
- NEW BOOK — Rethinking Political Judgement: Arendt and Existentialism
- Why facilitators are necessary to ensure high-quality public deliberation in citizens’ assemblies
- BRUSSELS IN THE AGE OF BREXIT
- Letter to my younger self – The final semester (dissertation, graduation, what’s next, ahhhh!)
- Cross-national partisan effects on agenda stability
- How a prime minister’s leadership style affects their parliament’s role in security decisions
- 2018 PIR Dissertation Retreat
- Letter to my younger self – How to survive and thrive in MA dissertation
- Does Catalonia Have a Right to Secede?
- Univ Edinburgh Europa Inst. Papers Online
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- Allegheny County Airport METAR
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Alternative News (Activist networks)
- Accuracy in Media- conserv (media watchdog) -attacking mainsgtre media (NY Times boycott), founded By Reed Irvine (pro napalm on El Salvador and Nuke Iraq)
- Ad Busters
- Business Leaders for Sensible Priorities (BLSP) -belonged to Center for American Progress
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers-commun based workers org. Allied to Carter Center and Interfaith Action
- Common Dreams- Progressive publication. Anti War, supported by R. Nader, Bill Moyer. Recycles op eds from Assoc Press
- Counter Punch- Alexander Cockburn editor (friend of Hitchens) and Jeffrey St. Clair. Often quoted by Project Censored as censored publisher
- Cryptome- repository for information about freedom of speech, cryptography, spying, and surveillance
- Diagonal- Spanish activist publication (former tabloid Molotov) leftist
- Essential Information- Multinational Monitor Newsletter, 1982 by Ralph Nader
- FAIR- progressive group: break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting
- FreePressMedia Reform-national, lib, nonprof org work to reform the media in the US
Generacion Y- Global Revolution
- Grit-Rural American know How (Blog by readers)-Lamade 1882, Williamsport , PA-1981 Topeka(Ogden Pub like Utne, Capers,Mother Earth).
- Hate Watch- Watchdog Southern POverty Law Center Blog
- K C Labor (Daily Labor News Digest)- Labor Notes-network for rank-and-file caucuses and union members and grassroots labor activists
- Lobster- Politics, parapolitics and history- Robinm Ramsay; http://www.rogerdog.co.uk/ are the first editions
- Mother Earth News (Ogden Publisher, like Utne, Grit)- environmental problems from a down-to-earth, practical, how-to standpoint
- Progressive Review-(email news digest "Undernews";1964 Idler; 1969 DC Gazette
- Project Censored- invest journal proj within the Sociol Dept Sonoma St Univ Other progressive publications:AlterNet, Mother Jones, New Politics
- Social Criticism Review- " disturbing content on contentious social issues …a treasure of papers to read and crank your brain out "
- Theocracy Watch-project run by Center for Religion, Ethics and Social Policy (CRESP), located at Cornell
- Thruth Dig
- Utne Reader- 1984, Minneapolis, Odgen Publishing-US politics and public policy
- Wikileaks Central
- WikiLeaks Mirrors from original http://wikileaks.ch/mirrors.html
Political Opinion
- A Formiga no Carreiro
- Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im- specialties include human rights in Islam and cross-cultural issues in human rights-secularization (Emory Univ; former HR Watch)
- Asra Q Nomani – right of women to walk through the front door and pray in the main hall of her mosque in Morgantown
- Balkinization
- Bill Fisher (Inter Press Service)- former Program Developer Kennedy Administration- insights on US politics
- CATO Institute BLOG
- Daniel Ellsberg- "The Most Dangerous Man in America"- The Pentagon Papers 1971
- Democratic Peace Rudy Rummel
- Diplomatizzando
- Farol da Democracia Representativa
Futuro Presente- Garry Davis World Citizen Movement
- Gerald Celente- "Futurist" (predicts pr forecaster of trends in the markets). Futurists are in the spectrum of alter strat like DARPA NASA
- Global Dashboard
Hitchens- political opinion maker- Irshad Manji-author, emmy award winner, Senior Fellow at Europ. Found Democ. Brussels; accepts Jews' historical roots to the land of Israel
- John J Mearsheimer
- John Pilger- Activist
Jose Pacheco Pereira- Keli Carender- Seattle blogger under the a.k.a. Liberty Bell that is credited to have founded the First Tea Party in her blog "redistributing Knowledge"
- Lew Rockwell-American libertarian politi comment, activist, proponent of the Austrian Sch of eco, chairman of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
- Noam Chomsky- MIT Emeritus, one of the forefathers of Linguistics and analytic philosophy. "Libertarian Socialist": Perhaps the most influential activist in the US
- Notas Verbais
- Nukes & Spooks- McClatchy Press Blog by Nancy Youssef (Pentagon Press Direct, Middle east expert)
- O Diplomata
- O INSURGENTE
- Paul Kedrosky
- Paulo Roberto de Almeida
- Race for Iran
- Robert Fisk- The Independent commentator- reported the Northern Ireland troubles in the 1970s, the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the Lebanese Civil War, the Iranian revolution in 1979, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Iran–Iraq War, the Gulf War and
- Sharp Right Turn
- SOcial Science Research network
- The National Interest
- ThinkProgress
Religion, Philosophy and Ethics
- Ahmed Subhy Mansour- noted Islamic scholar and cleric; founded Quranists sect that is neither Sunni nor Shiite
- Biblioteca Digital de Paulo Freire
- Christian Reconstructionism-conservative theological mov within Protestant Christianity that calls for Christians to put their faith into action
- David Barton- hard Dominionism- USevangel Christian minister, Repu political activist and found of the "WallBuilders". Nati Cou on Bible Curric in Pub Schools, Christian Reconstructionist. Friend to Glenn Beck
Dinesh D'Souza Christianity and Politics- Edip Yuksel- prime figures in the modern Islamic reform and Qur'an alone movements
- Frankfurt School- neo-Marxist interdiscipl social theory;Critical of both capitalism and Soviet socialism, searching altern path to social develo
- Gamal al-Banna- Egyptian scholar (younger brother of Hassan Al-Banna, founder of Islam Brotherhood, Great Uncle of Tariq Ramadan)
- Paulo Freire Project
- Portal Agostinho da Silva
- Religeous Movements Data base University of Virginia Library
- Zaid Shakir- Islam Scholar University of Berkeley: New Islamic Directions
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Oude Zak 000 
September 30, 2009 at 3:20 am
Hello,
I’m Nuno, still exploring the world of blogging and trying out new apps for this one here. I’m planning to create a sort of space for writing, organizing my ideas, create my web network of professional and personal interests and watch it grow if it ever takes off..