The Armenians’ “greatest error” was “to give in to a fatal hubris of thinking they could create a ‘Greater Armenia’ on territory emptied of the people who had lived there”, wrote the historian Ronald Grigor Suny. The irredentist ideology which was legitimised in the Nineties would be Armenia’s downfall.
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – IMF actions in Ecuador expose its venal motivations
The IMF were clearly miffed that their ‘authority’ had been challenged by ordinary citizen movements Read here
Economics
Germany’s (not so) V-Recovery – November 2020: employment slightly down on the previous month
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Geopolitics
BBC: Kneecap rapper’s terror case thrown out
The terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh has been thrown out following a technical error in the way the charge against him was brought. He was charged in May after allegedly displaying […]
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