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Monthly Archives: July 2013
Hunted whistleblower gets gong
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 9 July 2013 The prestigious Sam Adams Award was accorded yesterday 8 July 2013 to Edward … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, USA
Tagged Abu Ghraib, Craig Murray, Edward Snowden, Guantánamo Bay, Julian Assange, Karimov, Sam Adams, whistleblower
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Snake oil from faith healer
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 8 July 2013 Anthony Charles Lynton Blair, British Prime Minister from 1997 to 2007, is famous … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged George W.Bush, Nursultan Nazarbayev, Saddam Hussein, Sir Robert Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Tony Blair
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Vive la différence!
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 6 July 2013 “Another struggle has been the struggle to keep the value of a local … Continue reading
Posted in France, USA
Tagged "Writers at Work", Ezra Pound, George Plimpton, Paris Review
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The pachyderm in the pyramid
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 5 July 2013 In his “Poetics” Aristotle said that the unexpected has a tendency to occur. … Continue reading
Posted in Egypt, Turkey, USA
Tagged Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, Adli Mansour, Ahmet Davutoglu, Aristotle, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohamed Morsi, Rached Ghannouchi
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Smarts v. Fancy
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Dark satanic mills
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 3 July 2013 ART AND POLITICS The English painter, L. S. Lowry, is famous for his … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Politics, UK
Tagged dark satanic mills, Das Kapital, Friedrich Engels, industrial revolution, Karl Marx, L.S. Lowry, Tate Gallery
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Guantanobama
Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context. 1 July 2013 GUANTANOBAMA VISITS AFRICA US President “Guantanobama” is in Africa. Great stuff. His … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Politics, USA
Tagged Guantánamo, Magna Carta, Obama in Africa, Robben Island, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania
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