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	<description>Because the Empire never Ended</description>
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		<title>LRB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a thread on the LRB.
The extremism of the mainstream needs to be laid bare.
In a way it has, because, as was obscured by the mainstream parties, it is 1) their own failures, and 2) their own hateful posturing over issues like immigration, along with 3) their illegal pre-emptive wars and attendant jingoism that have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2798</link>
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		<title>Return to Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[End of a period in. Guatemala. Return to. Asia.
End of. Confinement, after. A fashion. Return of. Freedom, after. An Eternity.
Imprisoned in Eternity. I like it, as a phrase, but as a creed. Sir mistakes one for.
A masochist. Unchain my heart, that is right. And set. [Free] ... Go.
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		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2795</link>
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		<title>Braudel &#8211; The Perspective of the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading some economic history and pulled this out, Fernand Braudel - The Perspective of the World, the third and concluding part of his Civilization &#038; Capitalism. A gem, the first fifty pages are the most entertaining and illuminating thing I've read for a long while.
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		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2793</link>
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		<title>War and Independence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An observation regarding the transition to independence in Guatemala (1821). The lack of any need for an army to secure emancipation was the reason the resulting independence was neither supported by, nor served the interests of, the lower-middle and lower classes. Independence was guided by an urban elite. 
Sixteen years later, a popular movement, led [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2777</link>
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		<title>Anything is Possible</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I saw an image of the Nazi death camps and the strapline - "Anything is Possible"
Beingthe ultimate message, in the sense of its generality.
Tonight, researching totalitarianism, this, from Hannah Arendt:

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		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2769</link>
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		<title>Archivo General de Centro Americo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, the first time, to the Archivo General.
First image, a cedula real, 16th Century, the second, a 19th Century map.


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		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2766</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Even though you don&#8217;t believe, please help us.&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
At the height of violence of the dictatorship of Lucas García, in 1979, local shamans, led by Don José Sik and Don Miguel Tuy, among others, deeply concerned about the growing violence in the country, approached Padre Tomás and asked him to announce in mass their intention to conduct a series of ceremonies at thirteen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2761</link>
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		<title>Bring back the death squads</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the grenade attack last week, I wrote this:
Just another day in Guatemala City, today I sat outside the hospital watching victims of a grenade attack on a bus arrive. We're having war without the ideology here, much harder to combat when it's driven purely by economics. "Come back the Communists," they cried, "Revive the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2756</link>
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		<title>A tale of two Albertos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the beauty spa today (renegades require coiffure) a woman approached, and in a broad American accent enquired whether I was reading the copy of Hola! that lay in my vicinity. She looked at me more closely, "I'm guessing not..." I wiggled the book in my hands, Alberto Gramsci - Selected Writings, and suppressed the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2744</link>
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		<title>There are no politics in Guatemala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was outside the Roosevelt Hospital today when four ambulances arrived in quick succession, lights flashing. A crowd quickly formed around the entrance to the Emergency Department, of police, of passersby. What I was witnessing, it transpired, was the arrival of victims of a grenade attack on a public bus. Two were killed, fifteen injured.

Terrorism [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bookarmor.com/?p=2722</link>
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