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Category Archives: Politics
Bats in the belfry
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. 7 January 2014 If you allow yourself to be guided by bats, you’ll end up in … Continue reading
Revolting fountain pens
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, 6 January 2014 “Our addiction to computer screens and networks is a form of political … Continue reading
Posted in France, Germany, Politics, USA
Tagged Alain Finkielkraut, Edward Snowden, espionage, Herbert Marcuse, Kafka, Le Monde, Leviathan, Luddites, MARCUSE, Philippe Sollers
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Let’s hear it for Tin Pan Alley!
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 2014 Who would have thunk it? Hard to have forecast that today the front-line … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Politics, UK, USA
Tagged Guantánamo Bay, Ian Cobain, John Pilger, Julian Assange, PJ Harvey, Radio 4 "Today" Programme, Rowan Williams, Russell Brand, Shaker Aamer, tin pan alley
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Crocodile tears
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. 4 January 2014 я сижу на шее у человека , задавил его и требую , чтобы … Continue reading
Posted in Justice, Literature, Politics, Russia, USA
Tagged "What Then Must We Do?", crocodile tears, Leo Tolstoy, morality, oppression, serfs, Tsarist Russia
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The Fourth World 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. 1 January 2014 LA LUCHA CONTINÚA Precisely 20 years ago today, on 1 January 1994, indigenous … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Canada, Economics, Globalisation, Mexico, Military, Politics, UN
Tagged Acteal, Chiapas, Cold War, globalisation, Hiroshima, homogenisation, Nagasaki, neoliberalism, neutron bomb, subcomandante Marcos
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Read my lips
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. 13 December 2013 “There will be no downgrading of human rights under this Government…” William Hague, … Continue reading
Authors attack Big Brother
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. 11 December 2013 A STAND FOR DEMOCRACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE Hundreds of Writers sign Appeal … Continue reading
It’s a dog’s life for some
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 December 2013 The term “a dog’s life” is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, UK
Tagged bedroom tax, Fido, Harrods, Horatio Alger, NHS, Oxford English Dictionary, Samuel Smiles, Waitrose
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New comet or damp squib?
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. 7 December 2013 “His heart is in the right place, even if his head has gone … Continue reading
Reaganomics
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 December 2013 “I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of … Continue reading