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Two years later, a Commons Select Committee would conclude: ‘Britain had a legal right to intervene [in the Turkish assault on Cyprus], she had a moral obligation to intervene, she had the military capacity to intervene. She did not intervene for reasons which the government refuses to give.’

— Perry Anderson

The Divisions of Cyprus

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In Cambodia, donors spent between $50m and $70m on 700 international consultants in 2002 - equivalent to the wage bill for 160,000 Cambodian civil servants. In other words, donor-financed consultants working in the Cambodian government are paid upwards of 200 times what their Cambodian counterparts receive.

— Action Aid

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Submitted by antarchi on May 5, 2007 - 13:39.

Nuggets of wisdom from honorary ants, part-time ants, or people who should have been ants...

See them altogether here.

  • 2nd class work
  • a privilege to be exploited
  • antarchy
  • as long as they conform
  • dissipating ignorance
  • doing their duty
  • efficient tools
  • European Construction
  • excising thought at source
  • false distinctions
  • fitting people for the world
  • fragmentation of the human act
  • gumming together long strips of words
  • hippies applying to law school
  • it's time to withdraw
  • making thought uneccessary
  • monsters?
  • obeying orders
  • people who consider themselves civilised
  • Terrorists are the free marketeers of war
  • the bigs hit me
  • the duty of the progressive educator
  • the hottest place in hell
  • the neighbourhood bully
  • the world is imperilled by can-do idealists
  • the worst form of violence
  • violence has already begun
  • we could not see torn bodies
  • we imagine we are seeing a lively debate
  • what did we win?
  • what is bin laden?
  • women have fewer teeth
  • you mustn't feel like a martyr
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