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Speaking Truth to Empire’s Beneficiaries

June 20th, 2008 Comments(0)
SRB Picks of the Week 20 June 2008
:By Jeremy Rose

images.jpgThe phrase, “Speaking Truth to Power”, popular among progressives, irritates me. It’s as if those using it think the powerful are simply ignorant of the facts and if only a few brave souls were prepared to tell them the error of their ways the massive inequalities in power and wealth that plague the world would fade away. But I have no such doubts about the blunt and truthful open letter from Bolivian President Evo Morales to the European Union. Read more »

Ode to a Foreskin

May 23rd, 2008 Comments(1)
SRB Picks of the Week 23 May 08
:By Jeremy Rose

Collectors of obscure Wellington poetry collections may remember a book by Israeli historian Benny Morris’s father, Ya’acov. It was published shortly before the end of Ya’acov’s term as Israeli ambassador to New Zealand in the 1980s. Truth be told the verse wasn’t that memorable but it contained an ode to one of my school-mate’s foreskin that’s kind of hard to forget. Read more »

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