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La mort de l’Europe
David Marquand wants to sound an alarm about the state of the EU, but his hostility to the ideals of the West only serves to express the cancer at the heart of the European project.
Angus Kennedy,
spiked, 26 August 2011
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Facebook doesn’t cause riots – or revolutions
Social media luvvies are outraged that the websites on which they spend every waking hour – Facebook and Twitter – are being held responsible for the recent rioting in England. And they have every right to be outraged. It is daft to blame social upheaval and acts of violence on what are merely tools for communication.
Brendan O'Neill,
Telegraph, 25 August 2011
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E.U. Elites Keep Power From the People
“The process of European integration, which has always taken place over the heads of the population, has now reached a dead end,” Mr. Habermas said at a forum hosted by the European Council on Foreign Relations. “It cannot go any further without switching from its usual administrative mode to one of greater public involvement.”
Judy Dempsey,
New York Times, 22 August 2011
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European Day of remembrance of victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes
"My first point is that by choosing to remember these victims, we are not creating politics out of history. We are remembering the past so that we do not repeat our errors in the future. You may think that today totalitarianism is the past. Perhaps in the Europe Union it is. But such regimes still function in our neighbourhood - Belarus, Syria, Libya. Three examples we see every day in the media."
Jerzy Buzek, European Parliament, 22 August 2011
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Shoplifters of the World Unite
Although the riots in the UK were triggered by the suspicious shooting of Mark Duggan, everyone agrees that they express a deeper unease – but of what kind?
Slavoj Žižek,
London Review of Books, 19 August 2011
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Why we need a 'moral panic' over last week's riots
Just because there were people as alarmed by teenager behaviour in 1956 as we are by teenager behaviour in 2011, it does not say anything about whether the culture of 2011 is worse than its predecessor.
Ed West,
Daily Telegraph, 18 August 2011
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