Well, though I didn’t know the things Juan Cole (whoever he may be) thought I knew, no doubt he thought that somebody thought they knew them, so if you are among those, here’s Juan Cole’s dope to set you right.
clipped from www.juancole.com
Belief: Iran is aggressive and has threatened to attack Israel, its neighbors or [...]
A few years ago a shortlived South African newspaper, This Day, published a list of Enemies of the Apartheid State.
The South African archives had discovered and catalogued some of the files that the government kept on people they regarded as enemies of the state. This Day published the list in several successive issues, and I [...]
A couple of weeks ago I called for a synchroblog on Christian approaches to health care, and the synchroblog took place a couple of days ago – you can find the links to it here:
Phil Wyman at Square No More (that’s me): Clowns to the Left. Jokers to the Right. Stuck in the Middle of [...]
This week I discovered the Doctrine of Discovery, and discovered a whole can of worms that went with it.
It started innocently enough — I read a news item on the web about the Episcopal Church in the USA repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery”, and blogged, semi-jocularly, about being behind the times in learning that some [...]
The Amahoro story continued from previous post.
I broke of the previous post when I had to leave for Amahoro this morning, but continue it here. We split into groups and were asked to describe a situation in which we were in power over someone else, and someone else had power over us.
There was silence. Perhaps the [...]
… und I’m learning Korean, says Wernher von Braun.
Scratch swine flu off your list — we’re still all going to die, but now
We will all go together when we go
All suffused with an incandescent glow
No one will have the endurance
to collect on his insurance
Lloyd’s of Llondon will be lloaded when they go.
Who better to comment [...]
Are you wondering who to vote for in South Africa’s fourth democratic election tomorrow?
Hat-tip to Cobus for a link to the Mail & Guardian Poll Predictor, which asks you a series of questions based on the policies of the various parties, and then based on your answers suggests the parties you should consider voting for.
In [...]
It is not without reason that some people have nicknamed Nato the North Atlantic Terrorist Organisation.While it has talked much about the “war on terror”, ten years ago it teamed up with, and acted as the air force of a terrorist organisation, the Kosovo Liberation Army, whose atrocities have been systematically covered up.
clipped from www.wsws.org
Fresh [...]
Quite a lot of blog posts I’ve been reading recently have been concerned with morality.
Anja Merret of Chatting to my generation writes:
Where is the line that we knew we couldn’t cross over? Sure it was invisible, but somehow we did know where it was. In recent years I just haven’t been able to tell where [...]
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