Just back from a trip to France, where this quote in a book on the history of Libé struck me:
Le Tiers-Monde commence en banlieue!
The Third World begins in the suburbs, in other words. This was 1972 or thereabouts, and it was a slogan of the very far Left.
Curiously, the same notion is still [...]
Actually, it’s racist, revisionist, and revanchist Italians. But we’ll get to that.
Short version: Italy and Croatia have just had a brief but bitter diplomatic dispute over statements made by Italian President Giorgio Napolitano and Croatian President Stipe Mesic. There’s not really a good or bad side here, either; both nations seem to have [...]
I recently posted on Afoe about the frivolous ways in which people tend to throw around the N*Z* word these days. Latest on the list is Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez:
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez called former Spanish Premier Jose Maria Aznar a “fascist,” saying Aznar once told him to forget about the poor nations of the world. [...]
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