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Category Archives: Africa

The Perils of Globeerization

Interesting look at some of the global history and political economy of beer by Chris O’Brien | Foreign Policy in Focus | 24 October, 2006 The world’s cup runneth over … Continue reading

26 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Indigènes: enlarging France’s history

19 – 10 – 2006 :: Open Democracy A new French film exposes amnesia about the colonial subjects who fought for France and against fascism in the second world war. … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Niger delta: how to lift the oil curse?

by Timothy Sowula | Open Democracy | 19 October 2006 The hostage-taking strategy of militants in the oil-soaked Nigerian south is a symptom of the region’s economic and environmental breakdown, … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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