Tag: war
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Thoughts on ANZAC Day 2014
A collection of reflections on the idea of ANZAC Day across the 2014 ANZAC Day weekend. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Black Hawks, Minstrels, and a losing war
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve been noticing that the government has been rolling out the propaganda machine for the armed forces and the war in Afghanistan. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Emmanuel Jal – War Child
Another session at the Sydney Writers’ Festival that I really got a lot out of was called The Message. The brief was ‘Is it possible that wars can be fought, even won, via non-violent mediums like film and blogs?’ and the three panelists were all fascinating. Love0 Share Tweet Share Pin
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Horror stories from recent Gaza conflict
Israeli soldiers have admitted killing Gaza civillians in the recent conflict. Not only deliberately, but also having been ordered to: “That’s the beauty of Gaza. You see a man walking, he doesn’t have to have a weapon, and you can shoot him,” one soldier told Danny Zamir, the head of the Rabin pre-military academy, who…
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Who our real friends are
The opening From the Bookshelf paragraph from a few weeks ago was from John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began, the first of seven in the Tomorrow series for teenagers. It follows the adventures of an Australian high school student, Ellie and her group of friends, and uses the basic idea of ‘what would happen…