Category: News
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Whitey On The Moon: Not Any More
Occasionally two things from the news catch your ear and resonate together. Today it was the news that Obama has cancelled Nasa’s new moon programme. And [ht Barry Taylor] that Gil Scott-Heron is back with a new album. The connection? I’ve always loved Scott-Heron’s early, hard-hitting social commentaries. And the lyrics of ‘Whitey on the…
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…And Martin Rowson’s in The Guardian
Says it all. The $100m ‘loan’ from the World Bank to Haiti could be paid off like that by a fraction of the banking bonuses paid out on top of enormous salaries. Sickening.
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Haiti, Before and After | Peter Brookes
Peter Brooke’s cartoon in The Times today: I’d amend one thing, to be honest. The child in the blue shorts is most likely dead.
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Advent[ures] in Incarnation [6] | Born Free and Equal in Dignity
Tomorrow (10th) is ‘International Human Rights Day,’ commemorating the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the UN. Article 1 famously reads: “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.” Incarnation…