
RT @LeapingRobot: #OTD, 1950: Truman…
#OTD, 1950: Truman decides to support development of thermonuclear weapons: https://t.co/LQojH3BTqH #HistSTM https://t.co/5LBJJxpsV4
#OTD, 1950: Truman decides to support development of thermonuclear weapons: https://t.co/LQojH3BTqH #HistSTM https://t.co/5LBJJxpsV4
Puts me in mind of Traversos European Civil War 1914-1945 …. except that his narrative sadly stops short of UK … https://t.co/b3paOjRT9S
Best London views: Eight of the capital's most beautiful vantage points https://t.co/sdIwQ9ygj2 https://t.co/xO7BA3ojFG
How the opening crawl of Star Wars was filmed https://t.co/CQtW1cl36D
In ten minutes. No mistakes! https://t.co/VZtRgLTQKh
Tough times. Lagarde in July 2015 https://t.co/yLfgEoOi1N
Anshan heavy-industrial complex in 2001 complete with steam trains! https://t.co/WxFCsngEWp
Fascinating on Anshans trajectory from Jap Imperialist hub, to Maoist steel town to postind city complte with Tescosnhttps://t.co/V72WhXUlHK
Anshan steel works in 1950s inherited by China from Japanese imperialism in Manchuria https://t.co/y88e48F9Hr
After reading chapters of Ted Fertik’s great PhD dissertation on global steel industry. Anshan in Manchuria 1930s https://t.co/t0vvxCwQeV
The difference between an easy model and a complicated one n https://t.co/S8pZIsg0iP https://t.co/Nj5JaoxfxA
Cruel irony of Europe struggling for 5 years with Greek debt crisis only to doom it to a migration-related collapse. https://t.co/CKafpFt09h
Shadow of bike from atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima https://t.co/ZCukbCaA5B
So much to ponder in BMW USA's slogan: "We didnt predict the future, we created it." https://t.co/7mKNzs3cDf
No business like the refugee business. This is only functioning business at Greek-Macedonia border–Western Union. https://t.co/xGjr5oDoAt
Enzo Traverso makes me curious about Mandel’s take on WWII which he contrasts with Hobsbawm’s Stalinist apologetics nhttps://t.co/ZeHkBvaagw
Congratulations to Nick Stargardt: THE GERMAN WAR is a finalist for the Guggenheim-Lehrman Prize in Military History https://t.co/d9uYIAoKwq
Hard-hitting Lapavitsas critique of Syriza's crisis strategy one year one. He insists on need to plan for rupture. https://t.co/KrK6RdNSe9
The relatively small scale of Eurozone-crisis-induced migration to Germany remains a puzzle: https://t.co/SE1AN15oRN
Alexander Kluge's TV channel revving up for the Verdun anniversary in February https://t.co/qrniUKmDsx
Locke is one crafty SOB:nMy labor = My propertynMy [horse's] labor = My propertynMy [servant's] labor = My property https://t.co/UBUCWOEUEJ
Turning European: Negative interest rates arrive in Japan https://t.co/5bViBjF5zZ via @TheEconomist
Powerful Economist piece on the roll back of Merkel's refugee policy https://t.co/Trs3YFyQ4h
Felix Nussbaum Haus Osnabruecknhttps://t.co/4iTKd1033A https://t.co/RR70vHTFOG
The other side of German public: systematic overview of "People-Magazinen" i.e. Bunte/Gala/inTouch https://t.co/LpHlmNpybe
On the renaissance wargaming in US defense establishment & need to ensure that "Blue" loses at least occasionally https://t.co/M4UKIBpIU4
The belated end of the postwar era? A postcolonial reading of the Land Rover Defender anyone? https://t.co/yYLUuDIGZV
Lost in assumptions: fantastic review of research on econ impact of migrants @PiaHuettl @bruegel_org https://t.co/vWv38XWOah
In April DBRS rating agency reviews Portugals status. If it downgrades, ECB has to stop buying bonds –> crisis https://t.co/NVgn7BkSmT
Great on pressures on LIsbons effort to "reorient" it stance within austerity framework https://t.co/NVgn7BkSmT
Self-fulfilling prophecy? Great on the increasing apocalyptic quality of Euro crisis talk. https://t.co/4Xu25hwN0D
Fond hope? Markets dont just punish left-wing governments. Perhaps they will discipline Polands right populists too. https://t.co/SZ7HXDOshs
Beneath cover of refugee crisis, Renzi draws concl from Spain and Portugal elections –> Eurozone politics shifting https://t.co/7NK8gPxSdD
Renzi fighting for political life resorts to anti-auserity Gaullism. Ignore Brussels. Pressure Berlin https://t.co/7NK8gPxSdD
A bit boosterish but nevertheless interesting on private sector activism triggered by refugees https://t.co/9lT6oG5bw4 via @POLITICOEurope
An amazing overview of pop music genres!!!!! https://t.co/1EfDKehZdv
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