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“And then they came for me”
“Let there be no doubt that whatever sacrifices we journalists make, they are not made for our own glory or enrichment: they are made for you. Whether you deserve their sacrifice is another matter. As for me, God knows I tried.” The final words from the final editorial of murdered Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickrematunga.…
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War 2.0: Citizens, soldiers and spokesmen…
“Rome and the contado were one and the same.” Anyone familiar with Machiavelli‘s Discourses on Livy will appreciate how powerfully the philosopher and servant of the Florentine state connects republican virtue with the citizen army. And here is a modern historian and in the service of his state writing of his own call to arms:…
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War 2.0: ‘Neutral’ observers, Blogs and SMS alerts
Mads Gilbert is a critic of US foreign policy and of Israel. He also happens to be a Norwegian emergency medicine specialist who is currently working inside Gaza. As a doctor, he has shown up in TV reports describing the situation inside his medical facility. But as a critic of Israel/US policy he is under…