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Arabica Robusta

Tibet, Palestine and the politics of failure | openDemocracy - 0 views

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  • The victims of "post-colonial sequestration", by contrast, failed to make it past the barrier of independence and international recognition. Instead they fell into a state of half-recognised, but contested, existence. After the war of 1948-49 the "Palestine question" disappeared almost entirely from the international scene, only to re-emerge with the defeat of the Arab armies in the six-day war of 1967. Tibet too has undergone long years of neglect in the international arena, punctuated by periodic (and notably near-half-century) reincarnations of interest: the bloody British occupation of Lhasa in 1904-05, the insurrection against Chinese rule and flight of the Dalai Lama in 1959, and now the uprising of March 2008 (see Gabriel Lafitte, "Tibet: revolt with memories", 18 March 2008).
  • Arabica Robusta on 12 May 08
     
    The victims of "post-colonial sequestration", by contrast, failed to make it past the barrier of independence and international recognition. Instead they fell into a state of half-recognised, but contested, existence. After the war of 1948-49 the "Palestine question" disappeared almost entirely from the international scene, only to re-emerge with the defeat of the Arab armies in the six-day war of 1967. Tibet too has undergone long years of neglect in the international arena, punctuated by periodic (and notably near-half-century) reincarnations of interest: the bloody British occupation of Lhasa in 1904-05, the insurrection against Chinese rule and flight of the Dalai Lama in 1959, and now the uprising of March 2008 (see Gabriel Lafitte, "Tibet: revolt with memories", 18 March 2008).
tony curzon price

should we have gone to war in iraq - Google Search - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 04 Nov 07 - Cached
  • Should we have gone to war? from National Review in Array provided free by LookSmart
Arabica Robusta

Beyond armistice: women searching for an enduring peace | openDemocracy - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 01 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • The 1919 Zurich gathering is where the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom first took its name. You could say the League was born out of profound dismay at the unjust outcome of Versailles. A worn old volume is our one extant copy of the report of that conference. Holding it in our hands as we prepared this article, we saw anew just how central had been the women's preoccupation with economic issues.
  • This demoralizing sense of 'no alternative' has impacted on the thinking of the peace and women's movements too. Yet, we are resourced today with factual evidence of the economic oppression and inequality at the root of war, data of a scope and accuracy that the women of 1919 sorely lacked. The UN’s Human Development Report provides us annually with a clear picture of who profits and who lives in poverty.  The recent scandal of the so-called Global Financial Crisis has brought to view hard evidence of the subsidy made available to the financial institutions and individuals responsible, while a hyper-capitalism is imposed upon populations through austerity measures that attack public services, and on labour standards and conditions hard won over decades. Today, given the palpable rivalry of corporate interests and their national backers for control of resources and markets, peace activism can scarcely afford to ignore the causality of capitalism in militarization and war.
tony curzon price

Whether This War Was Worth It - 0 views

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  • Whether This War Was Worth ItIn Analyzing Iraq, Consider the Effects of Having Done NothingBy Robert Kagan
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FT.com | Economists' Forum: The dangers of living in a zero-sum world economy - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 31 Dec 07 - Cached
  • tony curzon price on 31 Dec 07
     
    The big point Mr Davey makes is that we would all be happier if we lived frugal, natural community-bound lives. I agree that some of us would. But many of us most definitely would not (I for one). Among the types of human being are those with fierce ambition and restless desires. If you stick them in closed communities they will soon organise the village to wage war on the next one. Thus rose the feudal estates and territorial despotisms of old. So, no, I do not believe in the return to Eden. It is one of humanity's oldest myths. But it is just that - a myth. Of course, Mr Davey may prove right that the challenge of replacing fossil fuels is one we are unable to meet. If so, at some point, our civilisation will collapse. It will not be fun. Of that I am sure.
Anthony Barnett

The costs of America's long war Paul Rogers - openDemocracy - 0 views

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  • The core budget for 2008 is expected to be $481.4 billion, compared with $441.5 billion for 2006; but the "supplemental" requests to cope with the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan push the figures even higher - from a total budget of $557.3 billion in 2007 to $645.6 billion in 2008.
  • injured in combat now exceed 23,000 (at least 10,000 of them seriously so). The effects of non-combat injuries, and of mental and physical ill-health, have required at least 20,000 troops to be evacuated from combat-zones to the United States. Many thousands more come to experience post-traumatic stress disorders.
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      Anthony Barnett on 09 Mar 07
       
      Bloody hell!
  • Anthony Barnett on 09 Mar 07
     
    The $$$ impact of the Iraq and overambitious global reach
tony curzon price

Knowledge Politics Quarterly - 0 views

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  • Laura Kyrke-Smith
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      tony curzon price on 09 Oct 07
       
      Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed (Preamble of the Constitution of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, November 1945).
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Insurgents Muster Their Forces Online - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • Insurgents Muster Their Forces OnlineRadio Free Europe Report Describes Iraq Fighters' New Media Versatility
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      new media for terrorists
  • The makers of Web-based propaganda may not be easy to track down, but their work isn't hard to find. As the report, titled "The War of Images and Ideas," makes clear, there is an astonishing array of media product feeding the worldwide appetite for news from the other side of the war in Iraq.
Peter Neis

Its The Job Deficit-Stupid | Politicol News - 0 views

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  • Peter Neis on 11 Aug 11
     
    Ronald Reagan began the Job Deficit in 1989, Bush helped with wars and Wall Street, why we have a job deficit and what to do about it
argh2xxx lala

First Person: Discharged For Being Gay - 0 views

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shared by argh2xxx lala on 01 Dec 07 - Cached
  • Do you think gay people should be able to serve the country which they are living in? In fact I have heard that some not-gay people joined the military and couldn't handle the military, and they told the military that they were gay to get out of the service. If the military hates gay people that bad, and wouldn't want them to join the service, I think during the war time the gay people don't have to worry about dieing in the battle fields even if there is going to be a draft.
tony curzon price

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shared by tony curzon price on 29 Nov 07 - Cached
  • It's not just Facebook and it's not just me. Every "social networking service" has had this problem and every user I've spoken to has been frustrated by it. I think that's why these services are so volatile: why we're so willing to flee from Friendster and into MySpace's loving arms; from MySpace to Facebook. It's socially awkward to refuse to add someone to your friends list -- but removing someone from your friend-list is practically a declaration of war. The least-awkward way to get back to a friends list with nothing but friends on it is to reboot: create a new identity on a new system and send out some invites (of course, chances are at least one of those invites will go to someone who'll groan and wonder why we're dumb enough to think that we're pals). That's why I don't worry about Facebook taking over the net.
  • tony curzon price on 29 Nov 07
     
    coryD on why facebook will go the way of other networking sites --- but will there always be one on the go?
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AlterNet: Blogs: Rights and Liberties: MoveOn Sets Its Sights on Facebook Privacy Viola... - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 26 Nov 07 - Cached
  • Bill O'Reilly can howl all he wants about the "war on Christmas." But Facebook has leaped several parsecs ahead of him, making itself into a Grinch so big that the good Dr. Seuss himself would have been gobstopped by the sheer evil magnitude of it all.
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European Journalism Observatory - The Myth of Media Globalisation - 0 views

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  • His key finding: By thoroughly analysing the USA’s patriotic media coverage of the second War in Iraq (2003) and the contradicting Internet voices to be heard on the Mexican Zapatista revolt or the rise to fame of Arab news station Al Jazeera, Hafez illustrates how the media reinforces the process of globalisation – without itself becoming truly and fundamentally globalised.
  • Hafez’ intelligent and well-made book will be of interest to media or communication researchers, not least because the author manages to present his analysis in a highly readable way. After all, the recent scandal caused by the Mohammed caricatures published in Denmark and elsewhere in Europe would be a prime example for why the “dialogue between cultures” is ultimately bound to fail: for one thing, there are simply too many different notions of things such as the freedom of the press, or the freedom of speech and religion. According to Hafez, “What remains is, the attempt to demystify a great and grandiose idea by analysing it in a sober and unprejudiced way.”
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AlterNet: Sex and Relationships: Pornography and the End of Masculinity - 0 views

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pornography violence

shared by tony curzon price on 23 Sep 07 - Cached
  • As is often the case, this paradox can be resolved by recognizing that one of the assumptions is wrong. Here, it's the assumption that U.S. society routinely rejects cruelty and degradation. In fact, the United States is a nation that has no serious objection to cruelty and degradation. Think of the way we accept the use of brutal weapons in war that kill civilians, or the way we accept the death penalty, or the way we accept crushing economic inequality. There is no paradox in the steady mainstreaming of an intensely cruel pornography. This is a culture with a well-developed legal regime that generally protects individuals' rights and freedoms, and yet it also is a strikingly cruel culture in the way it accepts brutality and inequality.The pornographers are not a deviation from the norm. Their presence in the mainstream shouldn't be surprising, because they represent mainstream values:
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