Tag: History

June 6, 1944. What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory

Nearly 80 years since the Allied invasion, the testimony of Charles Shay, a 99-year-old former US army medic, reminds us of the significance of that day Andrew Anthony American D-Day veteran Charles Shay stands on a dune overlooking Omaha beach in Normandy where he landed as a 19-year-old. Photograph: Kiran Ridley/The Observer Next month will see… Read More June 6, 1944. What the last veterans can teach us all as D-Day fades from memory

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‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

Thirty years after the end of apartheid, corruption is rife, crime is high and the economy is a mess. The party of Mandela admits it ‘made mistakes’. But will the people forgive them? Steve Bloomfield in Johannesburg In the heart of Soweto, the birthplace of South African democracy has been burned, looted and stripped for parts.… Read More ‘We didn’t fight for this’: ANC’s grip on power in peril in South Africa election

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The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians

‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile By Jonathan Cook On a misty November morning 21 years ago, I was desperately trying to remain camouflaged. Concealed in the foliage of an orange grove in Israel’s rural Galilee, I hurriedly took photos of a drab concrete building… Read More The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians

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Paul Daley: Myall Creek, Australia. Here, in 1838, a crime that would not be forgotten took place / Rock art as record of imperialism

Remembering is central to healing the pain of injustice and atrocity.  Indigenous Australians have a way of remembering, the good and the bad, through oral history and art that passes memories down through the generations. I know of parts of central west New South Wales where the Indigenous women still talk in vivid detail about their… Read More Paul Daley: Myall Creek, Australia. Here, in 1838, a crime that would not be forgotten took place / Rock art as record of imperialism

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Civil Society Hearing into the 1988 Massacre in Iran / Open Letter to the UN Human Rights Council

The UN Special Rapporteur on Iran and the Chair-Rapporteur of the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances join JVMI and survivors of the 1988 massacre in Geneva on 15 February 2024 in an appeal for justice London, 2 April 2024 – A group of 77 current and former United Nations special procedure mandate-holders and commissioners… Read More Civil Society Hearing into the 1988 Massacre in Iran / Open Letter to the UN Human Rights Council

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Raphael: A Portrait review – lengthy but illuminating study of Renaissance master

 there’s something admirable about Burton’s diligence and essay-like style; there are no curatorial talking heads involved, still less swooping travelling shots inside well-appointed art galleries Andrew Pulver Source: Universal Images Here is a mammoth 148-minute documentary about the Renaissance painter Raphael, which in its sheer length and detail is an impressive achievement in itself by… Read More Raphael: A Portrait review – lengthy but illuminating study of Renaissance master

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Documentary Details How Netanyahu Funded and Boosted Hamas

By Four Corners / ABC News (Larry’s List) Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas – but he enabled its development. Four Corners asked Israeli insiders how this happened in the new documentary, The Forever War *********************************************** The Gaza genocide as explicit policy: Michael Hudson names all names The End of Innocence The Palestine Exception to… Read More Documentary Details How Netanyahu Funded and Boosted Hamas

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खुदा हाफ़िज़

Ø  दिलीप सिमियन कई साल पहले, 1990 के दशक के मध्य में मैं एम्सटर्डम में था और एक दोस्त के घर रात्रि भोजन करने के बाद एक टैक्सी से लौट रहा था. टैक्सी में बैठने के बाद पता चला कि टैक्सी ड्राइवर एक भारतीय प्रवासी था. या मुझे ऐसा लगा. मैंने उससे इस बारे में पूछा तो… Read More खुदा हाफ़िज़

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The Captive Mind revisited

First posted January 24, 2017 The Captive Mind (1953) has been compared to the two most revealing and penetrating works on the same subject previously published – Arthur Koestler’s Darkness at Noon (1940) and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). Milosz was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1980. Read an interview with him in 2003, the year before he died. The… Read More The Captive Mind revisited

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