Israel will ignore Palestine’s membership of UNESCO, but Palestine can use this toehold to salvage its heritage.After blustery threats failed to banish the item from the agenda, the United States and Israel retaliated in their own ways when the United Nations cultural...
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Taking Down The Curtain | by George Capaccio
How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war-- Pablo Picasso So they...
The leeches and legalists squabbling over Gaddafi | by Brendan O’Neill
Neither Western leaders trying to wring moral mileage out of Gaddafi's death, nor UN officials denouncing it as illegal, deserve our backing. It is hard to know who comes out worse from the grisly aftermath of Colonel Gaddafi's death. Is it Western leaders like UK...
Greek Tragedy | by Nick Dearden
Everyday the same news – Greece lurches nearer to a default, the financial markets panic, and governments come up with a few more euros or some soothing words to calm them for a few hours. The meltdown has been put off for another day.Almost every commentator accepts...
