can Kenya get Moi’s? The Swiss Federal Council has prolonged the freezing of Mobutu’s assets “until the supervisory authority has ruled on the complaint it has received but at the latest until 30 October 2009″. But strangely, it is a Swiss professor apparently leading the charge to keep the money away from Mobutu’s [...]
Germany: the imagined nation
Two thousand years ago, Hermann a chieftain of the Cherusci tribe led his troops in the massacre of three Roman legions. This act is dated as the birth of the German nation and is being quietly celebrated after a century in which it was the rallying cry of the Hitlerite…(more)