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Sanum Ghafoor takes a look at war speak – where one man’s collateral damage is another man’s son…
“The frightening thing about the use of euphemisms is their power to efface the memory of actual cruelties. Behind the fa√ßade of a history falsified by language, the painful particulars of war are lost.”
David Bromwich
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Kamala Harris speaking with attendees at the 2019 National Forum on Wages and Working People in Las Vegas, Nevada. Source:
Gage Skidmore
- Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY-SA 2.0
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Toyokuni III/Kunisada (1786 - 1864). Original early 1860s. Source: sfbaywalk - Flickr / cropped from original / CC BY 2.0
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Red Traces 18: The birth of the novel in Feudal Japan
Opinion
Tommy Robinson at a pro-Israel protest, May 2021. Photo: Morning Star
25 Jul 2024