Author Archives: Antigone1984.com

Politesse and context

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 January 2012 Most of us are human beings. Yet how we are treated very much … Continue reading

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Cops and robbers

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.  We enjoyed this joke in the Guardian newspaper yesterday 3 January 2012. A bit early for … Continue reading

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Why? or How? That is the question

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.  Paris, 3 January 2012 To ask “why?” is to be a revolutionary. To ask “how?” is … Continue reading

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Employing arsonists to put out the euro bonfire

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.  2 January 2012 Do arsonists make good firefighters? Maybe, but I can’t see many fire brigades … Continue reading

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Lessons from Mencius for Warring States

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.  Antigone1984.com                                                                             Paris, 1 January 2012 WARRING STATES       We begin the year 2012 with … Continue reading

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Subjecting police to democratic control

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.  The row over the plan by UK Tories, the majority party in the country’s current coalition … Continue reading

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The Common Market 50 years on: how we got into this mess in the first place

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.  THE ECONOMIC ORIGINS Today’s European Union (EU) was the brainchild of a former brandy salesman, Jean … Continue reading

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Free speech denied in France, the home of Voltaire

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.  Anyone in France who denies that the Turks committed genocide against the Armenians in 1915 will … Continue reading

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The European Union or War

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.  EITHER THE EUROPEAN UNION OR WAR If it were not for the European Union, the nations … Continue reading

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Friendly fire: nuclear allies at loggerheads

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.    “Nato refuses to rule out crossing into Pakistan as it targets insurgent groups”. This was … Continue reading

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