Three Monkeys Online

A Curious, Alternative Magazine

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  • Ljubljana

    Ljubljana is one of Europe's coolest capital cities, famed for its castle, beautiful bridges, vibran
  • What’s in a Boom?

    In a glowing portrait of Gordon Brown (who appears to be doing something about the crisis other than make soothing noises) in the latest Nie, there is the following quotable quote: “…unemployment
  • Nowtopia - Chris Carlsson in interview with TMO

    Nowtopia – class, capital, and new communities – an interview with Chris Carlsson

    In 2001, Chris Carlsson writing in Processed World (the magazine that he helped found), outlined the challenge facing community activists after the Seattle protests:”It is common for radicals in
  • Interview with a failed investment banker – A personal insight in the impersonal financial world

    The governments of all the major countries have stepped in to solve the worst financial crisis experienced since 1929. The capital markets at the very heart of the financial system have failed, exposi
  • A Lazy Entry

    Gazeta Wyborcza continues its “Poland is no Country for Old People” series. The Onion was there first.
  • Fannulloni – The G8 Diaz Police Brutality Case

    Fannulloni is a word much in vogue in Italy at the moment, in part because of a headline-grabbing crusade by the Minister for the Public Sector, Renato Brunetta, against this seemingly large and well-
  • A Little History

    Back in September rumours spread in Ireland that one of the country’s biggest banks was close to going bust. Total nonsense, the experts said. Everything was A-OK. But the rumours persisted. On one
  • State and Private Corruption

    Dr. Grzegorz Makowski of the Institute for Public Affairs says that corruption is not the gigantic problem in Poland that everyone thinks it is. Among the reasons everyone thinks the problem is so bad
  • We Accuse

    “Poland is no country for old people,” Gazeta Wyborcza announced on Friday, with much handwringing in a full page spread advertising an upcoming series of heartrending etc etc. The text continues:
  • The Cellist of Sarajevo

    The Cellist of Sarajevo is Canadian novelist Steven Galloway’s third novel, but only the first to be published in the UK & Ireland. I picked up the novel enthusiastically (it’s beautif