http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog world media review website Sun, 31 May 2009 14:33:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 en hourly 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/the-striking-idiocy-of-youth/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/the-striking-idiocy-of-youth/#comments Thu, 06 Apr 2006 23:04:36 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/the-striking-idiocy-of-youth/ French students should go back to class to learn some economics]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/07/the-striking-idiocy-of-youth/feed/ 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/#comments Sat, 01 Apr 2006 15:33:15 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/ The formal laws constituting freedom of expression in democratic societies are only the tip of the iceberg of unwritten agreements between citizens about what they can express publicly in one context or another, says Göran Rosenberg.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2006/04/01/freedom-of-expression-and-its-limits/feed/ 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:57:13 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/?p=58 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/blogs-and-journalism-need-each-other/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/#comments Sat, 24 Sep 2005 08:20:35 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/24/the-myth-of-national-decline/feed/ 10 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/#comments Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:36:15 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/ What do we do about terrorist incitement on the internet? I have noted on several occasions that the main enemies of democracy and pluralistic Islam -- al-Qaida, the ultra-Wahhabi clerics of Saudi Arabia, and jihadists in Pakistan -- seem to have far surpassed the antiterror forces in use of this versatile and effective form of media.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/19/terror-on-the-internet/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/bulgarian-secret-service-implicated-in-murders-of-mobsters/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/bulgarian-secret-service-implicated-in-murders-of-mobsters/#comments Sun, 11 Sep 2005 16:50:40 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/bulgarian-secret-service-implicated-in-murders-of-mobsters/ Georgi Iliev, the gangster and proprietor of Bulgaria's Lokomotiv Plovdiv football club, was in jubilant mood as he stepped out of a bar to take a mobile phone call. Hours earlier, his team had pulled off victory in a UEFA Cup qualifying round. His last words to the barman were: "More champagne".]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/11/bulgarian-secret-service-implicated-in-murders-of-mobsters/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/history-lessons-passed-and-failed/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/history-lessons-passed-and-failed/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:58:48 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/history-lessons-passed-and-failed/ Eastern Europe's communist past. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/history-lessons-passed-and-failed/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/europe%e2%80%99s-answer-to-londonistan/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/europe%e2%80%99s-answer-to-londonistan/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:53:49 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/europe%e2%80%99s-answer-to-londonistan/ The London bombs expose the failure of Britain’s multicultural model, but also pose a challenge to Europe’s sense of identity, says Gilles Kepel. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/europe%e2%80%99s-answer-to-londonistan/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/who-are-americans-to-think-that-freedom-is-theirs-to-spread/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/who-are-americans-to-think-that-freedom-is-theirs-to-spread/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 11:24:17 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/who-are-americans-to-think-that-freedom-is-theirs-to-spread/ The real truth about Iraq is that we just don't know -- yet -- whether the Amercan dream will do its work this time. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/who-are-americans-to-think-that-freedom-is-theirs-to-spread/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/america-out-of-control-capitalist-monster/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/america-out-of-control-capitalist-monster/#comments Thu, 01 Sep 2005 06:41:32 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/america-out-of-control-capitalist-monster/ Hurricane Katrina has cost the lives of hundreds and devastated the US Gulf Coast. But instead of aid donations and sympathy, the Americans have heard little more than a haughty "I told you so" from Germany. It's another low point for trans-Atlantic relations.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/09/01/america-out-of-control-capitalist-monster/feed/ 1 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/28/ukraine-after-the-party/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/28/ukraine-after-the-party/#comments Sun, 28 Aug 2005 16:57:57 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/28/ukraine-after-the-party/ Now that the TV cameras are gone, Yushchenko’s regime is showing its cracks.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/28/ukraine-after-the-party/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/27/how-economists-really-view-health-insurance/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/27/how-economists-really-view-health-insurance/#comments Sat, 27 Aug 2005 12:27:28 +0000 Milen Nedev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/?p=41 Economists support the idea of health insurance. However, many of us believe that policies that pay for all health care services are not real health insurance. Insurance should protect people against catastrophic loss, but it should not insulate them from the cost of all health care.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/27/how-economists-really-view-health-insurance/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-neoconservative-convergence/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-neoconservative-convergence/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:34:02 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-neoconservative-convergence/ The post-cold-war era has seen a remarkable ideological experiment: over the last fifteen years, each of the three major American schools of foreign policy—realism, liberal internationalism, and neoconservatism—has taken its turn at running things. There is much to be learned from this unusual and unplanned experiment.]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-neoconservative-convergence/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 08:24:10 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/ In the last several decades, modernity--the period initiated by the Enlightenment--has come under increasing criticism]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/the-origin-of-modernity/feed/ 0 http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/imperial-liberalism/ http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/imperial-liberalism/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:25:52 +0000 Tsoncho Tsonchev http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/imperial-liberalism/ IT IS DIFFICULT both to be good and to be powerful. ]]> http://www.mediatimesreview.com/blog/2005/08/24/imperial-liberalism/feed/ 0