Nigeria had 763 cases, India 129, Sudan 112.… Read the rest
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WHO Reports Polio Cases Spreading in 2004
Jan 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBoycott of vaccine in northern Nigeria caused spread to neighboring countries.… Read the rest
‘The Transgressive Pleasure of Critique’
Jan 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonOliver Kamm on misreading Shakespeare.… Read the rest
Livingstone to be Reported to Watchdog
Jan 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAfter calling assembly member dishonest and Islamophobic.… Read the rest
Letter to Guardian Condemns Murder of Hadi Saleh
Jan 15th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe fought for a democratic, peaceful and federal Iraq. … Read the rest
An Open Letter and a Petition
Jan 14th, 2005 7:46 pm | By Ophelia BensonA couple of signing opportunities.
Labour Friends of Iraq. This is an open letter to the Stop the War Coalition asking why they have not spoken out clearly and forcefully on the murder of Hadi Saleh, International Officer of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions.
… Read the restStWC leaders view the “resistance” as a legitimate national liberation movement. StWC leaders view as ‘collaborators’ the IFTU, all election workers, and all democratic parties participating in the January elections, whether Iraqi Communists, Kurdish Parties or Shia.
This view is quite wrong. The leaders of the ‘resistance’ are an amalgam of Baathists, Islamic fundamentalists, pro-al-Qaeda militants and criminals. There is nothing progressive about their political programmes. If they were ever to take state power
Forced Marriage Fears in India
Jan 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSome British Indian parents force their children to marry.… Read the rest
Shirin Ebadi Summoned to Court
Jan 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonLawyer and human rights activist tells BBC summons is unlawful.… Read the rest
Woman Pardoned in Iranian Rape Case
Jan 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBe raped or kill the rapist: either way you get the death penalty.… Read the rest
Bad Timing For Livingstone’s Defense of al Qaradawi
Jan 14th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonWho says tsunami victims deserve punishment from Allah.… Read the rest
Evolution Disclaimer Sticker Must be Removed
Jan 13th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnti-evolution sticker violates the constitution.… Read the rest
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti on ‘Behzti’ and the Aftermath
Jan 13th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonReligion and art have collided for centuries.… Read the rest
Mark Thatcher Gets Suspended Sentence
Jan 13th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe younger generation just can’t get it right.… Read the rest
Colonials and Natives
Jan 13th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonAnother proud moment for the ruling class.… Read the rest
Another Undeniable Fact Denied
Jan 12th, 2005 7:52 pm | By Ophelia BensonNick Cohen said something interesting in the Observer the other day:
… Read the restTo take it from the top, the scandal about Britain’s television stations and many of its other cultural institutions is not that they are run by people who are motivated by anything so high-minded as converting the public to a political philosophy, but that they are run by well-educated and very well-paid men and women from the upper-middle class who protect themselves and their privately educated children from competition by feeding the masses mush – the favoured policy of aristocracies down the ages. That they do none the less read liberal newspapers and pretend that their pursuit of profit and market share is a radical blow in the anti-elitist
People are Capable of Rational Thought
Jan 12th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonTo say the people of Jamaica cannot change values inherited from British colonial era is to infantilise them.… Read the rest
BBC Producer Quits Over ‘Blasphemy’
Jan 12th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonSenior producer at Radio 3 resigns in protest at blasphemy in Springer Opera.… Read the rest
Waterstone’s, Free Speech, the Power of Books
Jan 12th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonBookshop fires employee for saying harsh things about boss on blog.… Read the rest
Ken Livingstone Defends Yusuf al-Qaradawi
Jan 12th, 2005 | Filed by Ophelia BensonHe’s shared a platform with or met various famous people, therefore…… Read the rest
Hand Waving
Jan 11th, 2005 10:40 pm | By Ophelia BensonSome more on fine phrases and their relationship (if any) to parsnip-buttering.
Yet, as
we shall see, in the moment of ritual divination the exclusive dualisms
of subject and object, mind and matter, what is outside and up there
(including stars) and what is down here and inside (including genes), partially dissolve in awareness of
cosmic connection. Multiplicity remains, separation remains, but there
is also relatedness, there is participation. Bringing an anthropological
perspective to bear on the topic of astrological divination, we see the
true business of astrology as participation in the greatest dialogue of
all, the grand conversation of earth and heaven.
That sounds buttery, right? But what does it mean? Relatedness to what? Participation in what? Jupiter? One … Read the rest