The normalisation of racism has very real consequences – look at what is happening in Gaza
A hunt for diamonds along the coast of Namibia has led to the discovery of a shipwreck dating back about five centuries, with its booty of gold coins and bronze cannons still intact. A spokesperson for Namdeb, the company whose miners made the discovery last month, said the ship was believed to have been the oldest wreck to be discovered in sub-Saharan Africa.
The highest and oldest wall is that which separates ”us” from ”them”. This is described today as a great divide of religions or ”a clash of civilisations”, which are false concepts, propagated to provide ”the other” — a target for fear and hatred that justifies invasion and plunder, writes John Pilger.
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/ 11 February 2008
Two spacewalking astronauts floated out of a hatch on the International Space Station on Monday to help install a new European lab, while a crewmate who was supposed to participate in the outing helped from inside. Spacewalkers Rex Walheim and Stanley Love ventured outside as the space station passed over Asia.
Centuries of troubles have bobbed on the waves off the Mosquito Coast: Christopher Columbus, the Spanish conquest, pirates, slave ships. For the fishing villages scattered across these remote Central American shores there was seldom reason to welcome visits from the outside world.