The Tea Party tail wags the Republican dog, but it’s Obama who’s dragged off course By Gary Younge, Sunday 10 April 2011 20.00 BST … The recently elected Republican governor of Maine, Paul LePage, is no art critic. Indeed subtlety and nuance seem to elude him at almost every turn. While campaigning he promised a …
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Apr 11 2011
Mission civilisatrice
A mission to ‘civilise’ the East, again? By Hayrettin Yucesoy, 11 Apr 2011 09:43 … As was announced recently by UK prime minister David Cameron, Britain, Germany, France and the US have begun talks to support Libya’s transition away from a violent dictatorship and to help create the conditions where the people of Libya can choose their own future. It …
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Apr 10 2011
By their books
Beware men of power who turn to writing books By Robert Fisk, Saturday, 9 April 2011 … Lebanon is a great place to pick up the linguistic ticks of the region’s – hopefully still falling – dictators. And I owe it to Alexandre Najjar to raise in the literary section of the French-language L’Orient Le …
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Apr 10 2011
What is trvth?
We’re not being told the truth on Libya By Johan Hari, Friday, 8 April 2011 … Most of us have a low feeling that we are not being told the real reasons for the war in Libya. David Cameron’s instinctive response to the Arab revolutions was to jump on a plane and tour the palaces …
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Apr 05 2011
I protest!
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. ~ Elie Wiesel [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNQiL-TPobM [tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng[/tube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWRfBZY-ng
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Apr 03 2011
Amnesty International @ 50
Amnesty International posters – in pictures The Observer, Sunday 3 April 2011 Amnesty has produced powerful posters over the past 50 years. Here are some of the best… La Colombe et le Prisonnier, 1959 A poster with an image donated to Amnesty by Pablo Picasso Prisoner of Conscience, 1969 (Netherlands) Designed by Joop Lieverst, a …
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Apr 03 2011
Does any of this sound familiar?
Voices of protest that deserve to be listened to, not sneered at By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Monday, 28 March 2011 … My husband, daughter and I should have joined fellow-citizens who marched on Saturday against the cuts demanded by fundamentalist, doctrinaire Tories and their helpful little Lib Dem friends. But I had earlier agreed to speak …
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