Twenty years is an eternity in politics, but for much of the two decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSČM) has discovered that voters have long memories.
In the current edition of The Prague Post you can read about Czech companies throwing their hat into the ring as Greece privatizes public assets and insightful opinion piece by economist Barry Eichengreen urging the creation of a Marshall Plan-style aid package to help the troubles Mediterranean country find its way and the observation that: [...]
Democracy Now Host Amy Goodman lead a discussion between Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange July 2. Check out the video below.
The extended interview with the one-time rising star of the Public Affairs (VV) party. Now that she’s out of the coalition and serving out the remainder of her time in office without a party affiliation, she has decided to open up about the VV, its personalities and what went wrong.
Note: This is the extended interview with Karolína Peake. An abbreviated version appeared in print on May 18 and can be found here. Karolína Peake has just been asked if she sees a scenario that could put an end to the endless scrutiny the Public Affairs (VV) party receives from the media and in political [...]
Call me a conspiracy theorist. It might be coincidental that MasterCard, Visa, PayPal and Amazon.com have all almost simultaneously decided to sever ties with WikiLeaks (though when your organization is on the other side of a moral dispute from a credit card company, you have to be doing something right). Much as they may try [...]
The New York Times op-ed columnist David Brooks lays out many of the central issues in the debate over whether WikiLeaks is doing the public service or harm in publishing previously inaccessible military and diplomatic communications (including more than 1,200 cables sent by the U.S. Embassy in Prague). While critical of WikiLeaks decision to release [...]
While his tenure has as prime minister has been marred by repeated personal scandals, and a troubling roll back in press freedom, the end cause Silvio Berlusconi’s downfall may actually end up being political — though he wouldn’t be Il Cavaliere if the story didn’t come with a sordid twist. Berlusconi has been the bain [...]
A Prague Municipal Court has upheld the Oct. 15-16 local election results in the face of a judicial challenge, paving the way for a likely grand coalition in City Hall between the Civic Democrats (ODS) and the Social Democrats (ČSSD). The judgment was released shortly after 1:30 p.m. today. “The Municipal Court concluded that during [...]
Check out highlights of the first installment of The Prague Post Discussion Series from Sept. 23. The topic of discussion was “Can the war in Afghanistan be won?” The event was moderated by Prague Post Editor-in-Chief Benjamin Cunningham, and the panel was comprised of: Akbar Ayazi, associated director of broadcasting Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty; Oldřich [...]