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When compassion dies

May 25, 2025

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Will Not One Israeli Say: End the War for Gaza’s Sake? By Gideon Levy, Haaretz, May 25, 2025 And there is not a single righteous person in Sodom. There are in Israel more than a few politicians and public figures calling to end the war. There are many people who are fighting courageously for the […]

Turning the (non-existent) economic corner

November 24, 2010

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We have turned the corner economically. That is the ongoing claim from politicians, pundits and mainstream media commentators. But, as Federation of Unions of SA general secretary Dennis George has noted: “Growth without job creation is meaningless. It certainly is for the overwhelming majority of the population, and this is a situation that applies across the world, although not in any uniform manner. For all the optimistic pronouncements, the global economic crisis continues and there is no sign that it is ending.