Incapable of Sustaining Weeds: What happened in Tigray (www.lrb.co.uk)
What are the major wars of our time? Ukraine and Gaza, of course. But what about Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan? Most of these are civil wars with very large numbers of fatalities. But they inspire much less interest than Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine or Israel’s attack on Gaza. The war in Syria received...
Judith Butler · The Compass of Mourning · LRB 13 October 2023 (www.lrb.co.uk)
Personally, I defend a politics of non-violence, in the knowledge that it cannot possibly operate as an absolute principle to be applied on all occasions. I maintain that liberation struggles that practise non-violence help to create the non-violent world in which we all want to live. I deplore the violence unequivocally at the...
Convention Rights - Why the government's plan to leave the ECHR makes no sense (www.lrb.co.uk)
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In Koh Ker (www.lrb.co.uk)
On the drive north from Phnom Penh, I asked Gordon how he had learned about the looting of cultural heritage. ‘I went to the British Museum,’ he said drily...
David Wallace-Wells · Ten Million a Year: Dying to Breathe (www.lrb.co.uk)
Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same month, around 800,000 people died from the effects of air pollution. That didn’t. Novelty counts for a lot. At the start of the pandemic, it was...