Nomadics Blog

Peru Quake: EL DIARIO DE UN SOLDADO

Dedicando éste espacio solidario a los Hermanos de Pisco, Chincha e Ica – PERÚ, debido al terremoto del día 15 de agosto, apelar a su buena voluntad y afecto, colaborar con un grano de...

Abdallah Zrika Poem

Abdallah Zrika MICE OF THE WHEEL OF LONELINESS 1. I don’t want to be the chairfacing the body of the deceased nor the insect of emptinessbetween the legs of the words nor the pebble...

Two little Hölderlin translations

Friedrich Hölderlin AN UNSRE GROßEN DICHTER. — TO OUR GREAT POETS. The Ganges’ banks heard the god of joy’s triumph, as from the Indus all-conquering young Bacchus came, with holy wine waking the nations...

More re: Debray on Palestine

Since translating & posting the extract of Régis Debray’s article on Palestine that appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique, I discovered that said monthly now has an online English edition in which you can read...

Régis Debray on Palestine

The current issue of Le Monde Diplomatique (August 2007 – #641) reprints a paper the previous [Chirac] government of France had asked the writer and philosopher Régis Debray to provide after, a fact finding...

Bastille Day on the Peaks

Drove slowly with Miles in the little rented SEAT from the Algarve to the Pyrenees, via Lisbon (more on that gorgeous discovery in a few days) where we are now staying (vacationing? /working?) in...

Miles & the Dolphin

& that’s not Miles Davis doing “Green Dolphin Street,” but my son doing his stuff. Yesterday we visited ZooMarine here in the Algarve, and Miles swam with a bottle-nosed dolphin. A little movie of...

A Sudden Change of State

A new paper suggests we have been greatly underestimating the impacts of climate change – and the size of the necessary response. By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 3rd July 2007. Reading a...

Remove Robert Mugabe

Remove Robert Mugabe Appeal for a worldwide reading on September 9, 2007 Mugabe’s human rights abuses go back to the early 80s, when he implemented the Gukurahundi operation – the bloody murder of more...