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		<title>Tony Judt, farewell.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friday the 6th of August, after a battle of two years against motor neuron disease ,Tony Judt, celebrated historian and intellectual extraordinaire, passed away. The more frequent readers of Gibburt will know that I greatly admire mr. Judt and as such I could not let his passing go without a small token of my appreciation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blue buckets for equal rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peaceful protest against injustice can take many forms. Very common is the gathering of a group, walking in concert through the streets with banners and shouting paroles. Writing letters, discussing the issue, protest songs, satirical video clips, pamphlets, the list goes on and on.
Recently I came across one of my favorite forms of protest: the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Elegy: Arjen Grolleman (37), KinkFM&#8217;s driving force</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The only radio station in the Netherlands that&#8217;s entirely about alternative music is KinkFM. Broadcasting for about 15 years now, it has gathered a small but steady crowd of listeners that can enjoy &#8216;mainstream&#8217; alternative, but also more obscure genres, like ska, avant garde, metal and even contemporary poetry and literature. No other Dutch radio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/elegy-arjen-grolleman-37-kinkfms-driving-force/</link>
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		<title>Gibburt Top 5 Most read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the holidays are behind us now and we have all started again with our regular lives, this would be the time to reflect on the previous year. I for one have been very happy with both the readership and the penmanship of the articles on Gibburt in 2009 and since, like any other website, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/gibburt-top-5-most-read/</link>
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		<title>Tony Judt, the &#8216;problem of evil&#8217; in Postwar Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The holiday season also hit Gibburt and as such we have not been as active for the last few weeks as we could have been. After the vacation however you can again expect many different discussions and opinions so keep checking in.
For now I would like to draw your attention to the following article from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/tony-judt-the-problem-of-evil-in-postwar-europe/</link>
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		<title>Book: Postwar, by Tony Judt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the advantages of writing book reviews for your own blog is that you can choose only to review those books that you like. This definitely applies to the book I would like to talk about today: Postwar, a history of Europe since 1945 by Tony Judt.
Tony Judt is a Cambridge trained historian whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Solution, by Bertold Brecht</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great bit of poetry by german writer Bertold Brecht. For those of you who would like to read the orginal German version please find it at the end of the post.
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The Solution
by Bertold Brecht
After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writers Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/the-solution-by-bertold-brecht/</link>
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		<title>Azerbaijani bloggers Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizade &#8211; sentenced</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week the two Azerbaijan bloggers we blogged about, were convicted for hooliganism. Despite international pressure they were sentenced to an outrageous two and two and a half years in jail. (Go here for an excellent link list with various reactions and here if you want to take action.)
The verdict fits the impression that the Azerbaijan regime [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/azerbaijani-bloggers-emin-milli-and-adnan-hajizade-sentenced/</link>
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		<title>The Canudos massacre</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antônio Vicente Mendes Maciel (1830 – 1897), or Antônio Conselheiro (Anthony the Counselor) as he was called, led a turbulent life. He was born from a family of cattle breeders in the Brazilian Northeast and educated by his grandfather, who was a local teacher. He married and settled down but after his wife betrayed him, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.gibburt.com/the-canudos-massacre/</link>
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		<title>Update: Abu Omar rendition trial ends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trial around the kidnapping of the Egyptian imam Abu Omar has been concluded. See for a short update my post on Filip Spagnoli&#8217;s blog here.
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