I am thinking of the 77 year old Greek pensioner who took his life earlier today in Syntagma square, Athens.1 I am thinking of JFK’s 20th of January 1961 inaugural address speech where he uttered these well cited words: “ask not what your country can do for you...
At this week’s UK Treasury Select Committee hearing on the Budget of 2012, attendees were invited to draw parallels between George Osborne’s view of economics and the military stratagems of Field Marshall Haig. It seems that the British Chancellor of the...
In memory of Bernardo Vázquez Sánchez (…) What if the dead are talking with their voices of blood and their disappeared bodies, now that, in the chorus of the living, no one keeps silent. Lêdo Ivo (Time to Talk) On 15 March this year, when many families were preparing...
… what are you laughing at? Change the name and you are the subject of the story” (Horace, Satires and Epistles. London: Penguin 2005: 5) In November 2010, British students staged a series of demonstrations in several cities of the UK and Northern Ireland....
Christopher Mattison: During an interview that you gave with Madina Tlostanova in 2009, you posed the question (as a response) “Why save it at all?”—in regards to the economic system and the looming financial crisis. You continued by stating that it wasn’t the...
San José, Colombia. We were searching for the only house in the street left standing. Jump by jump, we dodged so much debris that I began to imagine I was moving through one of those photographs of the bombing that took place during the wars in Europe. What surprised...
