Thanks to my good friend Dave for reminding me what a great comic Achewood is. With a guest appearance from the man with the greatest name in history.
J.K.
Archive for February 19th, 2008
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Feb
Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Castro steps down as Cuban leader
Fidel Castro resigns as president
Bearded revolutionary who laughed in America’s face
Weird and wonderful: the facts about Fidel Castro
Castro resigns as Cuban president
Castro: his last battle
Although the Cold War is frozen in the past, the era [...] is not a closed chapter. More people across the Latin American sub-continent are looking to the Cuban leader for inspiration than ever before, as popular - and especially young - opinion swings against the United States. But the world’s most instantly recognisable leader, who has left his iconographic mark on history, is about to enter the Pantheon of memory.
Huzzah! It seems that, in the case of Cuba, the application of sanctions and exercising of patience does work after all!
J.K.
p.s. did I mention how much I love Jon Swift?
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links for 2008-02-19
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Holmes demanded that the Palestinians cease their rocket attacks, but said Israel’s blockade was “collective punishment” which violated international humanitarian law.
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“But it certainly has a warping effect on how we think about the world, and how we think about ourselves.” Journalism became not descriptive but prescriptive - “and that had an enormous effect on our political life, our policy, our nightmarish policy, our
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“The decision to destroy the American satellite does not look harmless as they try to claim, especially at a time when the US has been evading negotiations on the limitation of an arms race in outer space,”
