Gaza + Israel = Murky Just Conflict

Last night I was telling a friend why I thought, on balance, Israel was justified in its actions in the Gaza strip, and that comparatively the death of 555 in 11 days of full on modern warfare, including several days of house to house street battles is a testament to the low casualties that the […]

Filed under: Commentary, Government, Ideas, Society, War, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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"We’ll shoot and kill you if you continue to write these things," - Sbu Ngobeni

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=nw20080911141538545C746132
I should choose my words wisely. Because Sbu Ngobeni is quoted today by Independent Newspapers, as saying he will “shoot and kill” Jonathan Shapiro, who Mr. Ngobeni says “deserved to rot in hell” for Sunday’s cartoon indicating Jacob Zuma was being assisted by the Alliance to rape the justice system.
Do we now live in […]

Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Economy, Ideas, Language, Law, Philosophy, Politics, Rant, Society, War, Zuma, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Sierre Leone, Football, and a return to blogging

I haven’t blogged in a while. I needed a break, and I had to avoid freaking out about Hlope, Zimbabwe, the Million (Thousand?) Man March, and the otherwise seemingly endless tide of bad news leaving our society at present: even the economy is going down the drain (although now maybe I can afford a home […]

Filed under: Africa, Commentary, Ideas, Language, Philosophy, Society, War by Andrew la Grange
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How very Darth Vader

I was looking at WW2 propaganda posters from the USA, after checking out the following post on YOU THE DESIGNER.
Its got to get you wondering about the impregnation of the German helmet in the psyche of the Allies.
I mean this poster doesn’t say ‘U.S. Government’ to me - rather some sleeper campaign from Hollywood. […]

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The power of slow defeat

Last night I was watching The History Channel, and there were two very interesting shows back to back. First one which looked at the shootouts of the Iraq conflict, as the coalition fights the insurgency, and conducts essentially a series of deadly and brutal SWAT police actions around Iraq. This was followed by a documentary […]

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