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 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 [...]
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 [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party suffered a major defeat at the polls Nov. 2, losing control of the lower house of Congress and shedding seats to Republicans in the Senate. Republicans picked up at least 60 seats in the House of Representatives, with several races still too close to call. Ohio Republican John Boehner [...]
Equal parts humor and serious message, the “Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear” took place on Washington, D.C.’s famed National Mall Oct. 30. Jon Stewart, host of the satirical Daily Show, and Stephen Colbert, host of the sister show The Colbert Report, took to the stage to lead what have most termed a counter-demonstration against the [...]
Check out analysis of the behind the scenes maneuverings to gain control of Prague City Hall including comments from political analysts Jiři Pehe and Bohumil Doležal in today’s print Prague Post, and a report on how the Civic Democrats (ODS) and Social Democrats (ČSSD) may look to form a “grand coalition” between themselves and bypass [...]
Get a full round up and analysis of the local and Senate election results in the Oct. 20 print edition of the Prague Post, but here are some early Sunday morning results. The Civic Democrats (ODS) have lost control of city councils in all of the Czech Republic’s major cities with the exception [...]
Read about the City Council’s proposal to legalize, regulate and tax prostitution in the Sept. 15 edition of The Prague Post. The proposal seeks to limit prostitution to brothels and forces prostitutes to register for a license pending regular health checks. The Council will vote on a bill put forth by Deputy Mayor Rudolf Blažek [...]
Prague residents awoke Sunday morning to (or more likely were awoken by) the sounds of street cleaners. While the city does usually do a commendable job of cleaning gutters, sweeping streets and emptying trash bins (at least in the city center), the scale and timing of things Sunday had the ring of something different — [...]
President Václav Klaus spoke in Parliament Sept. 7 for the first time in seven years. Among those drawing criticism from the President was the Constituional Court. “The trend towards various court bodies usurping more power than what belongs to them that has been evident in this country and the whole of Europe in the past [...]