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Impressionant papier de Robert Fisk : The dangerous dichotomy

It’s not difficult to be cynical about the way in which Arabs can both hate the West and love it. In Arab capitals, I can read the anti-Bush fury expressed in the pages of local newspapers and then drive past the American embassy where sometimes hundreds of Arabs are standing round the walls in the hope of acquiring visas to the US. The Quran is a document of inestimable value. So is a green card.

Travel-itch : Education or Dependence?

Many NGOs are apparently training grounds for idealistic – or opportunistic – young westerners, who practice theoretical skills, newly acquired from university, in a third world country. Then they go back to their lives in the first world, with salty stories and an easier affectation of nonchalance.

ZNet / John Pilger : Cambodia: A Victim Of ‘Aid’

As in Africa, the « donors » (the west and Japan) have perpetuated the myths of a « basket case »: that Cambodians cannot do anything for themselves and that genuine development aid and rapacious capitalism are compatible.

Voilà trois ou quatre fois, ces jours-ci, que je lis sur des sites qui se veulent français une phrase ainsi orthographiée :

J’espère ne pas avoir tord, mais…

A force d’être choqué, j’ai eu un doute stupide, et stupidement je viens de regarder dans mon dictionnaire. Je le confirme : vous avez TORT. « Tord » existe à la troisième personne du singulier du verbre tordre (il tord), ou dans « tord-boyau(x) », mais c’est tout.
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