It was bound to end in disaster: two ideologues, one a communist and the other a neo-conservative, "do battle" over a skype link from a house in England where Assange is held under house arrest.
Boris argues that history can be made by strong individuals not impersonal forces
Presented on Atlantic Council on January 13, 2016
Analysis of how the oil is controlled.
As we emerge from a decade of expensive overseas wars, retired four-star general Wesley K. Clark identifies a new unifying national strategy to make the US independent of the Middle East, freeing the country to fully focus on the resurgence of China.
For this episode of Meet the Renegades we have invited the Dutch journalist and author Joris Luyendijk to discuss Brexit implications and some of the banking sector flaws.
Café Weltschmerz, a new initiative in which journalists, scientists, entrepreneurs and artists collaborate on cultural and social innovation. By bringing experts from different disciplines in an open confronterent talk with administrators and policymakers, Café Weltschmerz wants to create informative programs with depyh. Café Weltschmerz has it's own YouTube-channel. Sorry for non-Dutch speakers ... the channel is only in Dutch.
Renegade Inc is a new kind of talk show for people who think differently. Ross Ashcroft brings together thinkers, writers, leaders and creators who question and re-think the conventional wisdom of modern life.
Srećko Horvat, a Croat philosopher, Elif Shafak, renowned Turkish novelist, and Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s former finance minister, bring to this conversation an intriguing perspective. As intellectuals who know Britain well, they understand first hand the perils of nationalism, disintegration, isolationism and marginalisation. They place post-Brexit Britain in a context informed by a view of Europe and Britain from the continent’s opposite ‘corner’, sharing insights from Greece’s tensions with Brussels and Berlin, Yugoslavia’s disintegration, and Turkey’s fraught relationship with a Europe that both courts and marginalises it.
See the border changes of the world from 1900 all the way up to present day.
Chuck Schumer explains why Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court Neil Gorsuch is a huge mistake.
In this major event, Friedman will offer his guide to updating our lives and institutions for the accelerating changes of the 21st century. Interesting analysis on Trump.
‘America first!’ Donald Trump hammered out this message over and again in his inauguration speech a week ago today. He promised tariffs, a crackdown on immigration, and a restoration of American military might. He entered the White House as the least popular incoming president in 40 years.
Banks is widely regarded as one of the chief architects of Brexit, having donated more than £13 million to anti-EU organisations, including UKIP, as well as having funded and directed Leave.EU, the unofficial Leave campaign in the 2016 referendum. Following the referendum, Banks wrote The Bad Boys of Brexit, a book chronicling his role in the campaign's success. Recently, his political activities have come under legal scrutiny for possible connections with Russian authorities.
