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Hard News 10/04/03 - Looking Forward
HARD NEWS 10/04/03 - Looking forward
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|Apr 10, 2003 09:43
Russell Brown's Hard News
There
can be few sights more powerfully symbolic than the toppling
of a dictator's statue. And Saddam Hussein's regime has
certainly allowed for that scene to be played out over and
over, as his ubiquitous images are torn down by his former
subjects...
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Desert island selection |Apr 09, 2003 11:07
Now
playing in the Muse Lounge
Daniel Clowes has observed
that female teenagers are licensed to be emotional in a way
that other people aren't. He made this point extremely well
in an interview which my friend Ian found in a remaindered
magazine, kept, and forwarded to me by surface mail. In turn
I read it, noted the passage, tore the interview out and
filed it for future reference. I don't know where it is now.
But trust me, Clowes was ...
http://publicaddress.net/default,muselounge.sm#post373
HARD NEWS 09/04/03 - Like nobody really died
My customary ranting, and a superbly-turned post from Debra. You should read it.
Cheers,
RB
Like nobody really died |Apr 09, 2003 10:39
Russell
Brown's Hard News
"We share sacrifices. We share grief.
We pray for those families who mourn the loss of life;
American families, British families ?" George W. Bush let
the sentence hang in the air. I genuinely thought he was
about to say "Iraqi families". It would have been a decent
and thoughtful thing to do. But he didn't...
http://publicaddress.net/default,hardnews.sm#post372
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Michaels and a Leonard on Fear |Apr 08, 2003 16:13
Debra Daley's astral plane
When future journalists
writing for magazines and weekend supplements pin an epithet
on this decade, I'm betting a high hand to nothing that
they'll sum up this zeitgeist along the lines of "The Age of
Anxiety". After all, the millennium started off with a lot
of scarifying about the Y2K bug and then, while everyone was
still distracted by the fakery and broken promises of
technology, terrorism exploded into previously safe havens
of western consciousness ?
http://publicaddress.net/default,chant.sm#post371
ENDS
Gordon Campbell: On The Hikoi Arrival, And Tyler Childers
Alastair Thompson: COP29 Erasure Story Update – All's Well That Ends Well
Binoy Kampmark: Thank You For Emitting - The Hypocrisies Of COP29
Alastair Thompson: COP29 Erasure – COP29 Media Center Crippled
Ramzy Baroud: End Of Empathy - Did The Gaza Genocide Render The UN Irrelevant?
Ian Powell: Physician Associates - A ‘Solution’ Desperately Searching For A Problem