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In praise of failure : four lessons in humility by Costic? Br?d??an, 2023.

May 26, 2024 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In praise of failure : four lessons in humility by Costic? Br?d??an, 2023. I just finished this quirky little book (273 p) and am left with more than a few things to think about – birth, death, humility, human frailty, hubris, genocide, madness, disease, senility, poverty and wealth to name a few. He uses the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, History, Obituaries, Politics, Sea Stories, Thinking about, What I Read Tagged: birth, books, Death, disease, Emile Cioran, failure, genocide, Hitler, hubris, human frailty, humility, madness, Mahatma Gandhi, Osamu Dazai, philosophy, poverty, Seneca, senility, Simone Wiel, Stalin, Yukio Mashima

Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq

March 14, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Guardian – Iraq war: 20 years on Long shadow of US invasion of Iraq still looms over international order Brown University’s Costs of War Project estimates that the taxpayer bill for post-9/11 US wars reached $8tn, representing a profound diversion from civilian spending. About 400,000 Iraqis died. Guardian – Iraq war: 20 years on

Posted in: History, Politics, Racism, Thinking about, This Day in History Tagged: Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, chaos, Condoleeza Rice, David Petraeus, de-Baathification, Gaddafi, George Bush, hubris, insurgency, invasion, Iraq, Iraqis, liberal interventionism, March 20 2003, Saddam, sanctions, Shia, Sunni, Tehran, Tony Blair, unilateralism, Vladimir Putin

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