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I recall running for my life after being nearly surrounded by Khmer Rouge guerrillas south of Phnom Penh in 1974, but at least we were there to chronicle the horrors ... and it was very much our choice!
Thanks again for the powerful and compelling survey, David. The military targeting of journalists for direct assault seems to be Israeli policy in Gaza. Also, seems more crass than usual. The wanton assault is unmeasurable -- when was the last time it happened?
The idea of Europe abandoning the Western Alliance and eventually destroying the EU is inconceivable but can happen. I grew up calling countries Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, hello?? Also, where Lowlands was composed of progressive Netherlands and a bicultural Belgium where the francophones still dominated. 'I am your Retribution' Mr. Trump now howls: Last time I was in Brussels, the Flemish-speaking shuttle driver refused to speak French to me.
We who were there when Europe emerged as the 2nd leading economic bloc and free flow of population was a reality -- well, what are we seeing now? You report it all.
It's daunting to read about Trump-style nativism or sectarianism taking hold in the towns of Slovakia but (a truism we often forget) the world doesn't rush onward in a set path, it cycles, often like water going round the drain. Of all the Marxian observations, most Utopian, I eventually rejected early in my 20s, there was one I retained, and it can't be refuted: the Capitalist cycle cannot live without concentration, crisis, collapse, and re-making from the rubble. Longer-term planning brings stasis. What's the news from Japan?? The Japanese committed a similar folly when they banned immigration and planned their own spiral into an age-doomed ancient hermit empire'.
With the help of Le Monde, you have raised a crucial complaint: let the journalists decide whether to risk their lives, which is what we've always done elsewhere. World opinion depends on that.
agreed....will have to monitor that for next week !
thanks for the tip, Tim !!
I recall running for my life after being nearly surrounded by Khmer Rouge guerrillas south of Phnom Penh in 1974, but at least we were there to chronicle the horrors ... and it was very much our choice!
So very very true ... it is a hateful conflict when so many children have lost their lives, too, and with not a word to chronicle this loss !
Thanks again for the powerful and compelling survey, David. The military targeting of journalists for direct assault seems to be Israeli policy in Gaza. Also, seems more crass than usual. The wanton assault is unmeasurable -- when was the last time it happened?
The idea of Europe abandoning the Western Alliance and eventually destroying the EU is inconceivable but can happen. I grew up calling countries Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia, hello?? Also, where Lowlands was composed of progressive Netherlands and a bicultural Belgium where the francophones still dominated. 'I am your Retribution' Mr. Trump now howls: Last time I was in Brussels, the Flemish-speaking shuttle driver refused to speak French to me.
We who were there when Europe emerged as the 2nd leading economic bloc and free flow of population was a reality -- well, what are we seeing now? You report it all.
It's daunting to read about Trump-style nativism or sectarianism taking hold in the towns of Slovakia but (a truism we often forget) the world doesn't rush onward in a set path, it cycles, often like water going round the drain. Of all the Marxian observations, most Utopian, I eventually rejected early in my 20s, there was one I retained, and it can't be refuted: the Capitalist cycle cannot live without concentration, crisis, collapse, and re-making from the rubble. Longer-term planning brings stasis. What's the news from Japan?? The Japanese committed a similar folly when they banned immigration and planned their own spiral into an age-doomed ancient hermit empire'.
Things getting a little hotter in Ecuador also...
With the help of Le Monde, you have raised a crucial complaint: let the journalists decide whether to risk their lives, which is what we've always done elsewhere. World opinion depends on that.