On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 5:20 PM, ken hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> A stellar humanistic imperialist! If only people were better at it.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/apr/26/fred-halliday-obituary
>
> Fred favoured western interventions in the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan
> and Iraq – Saddam Hussein and his regime being by far the greater evil – but
> criticised what he considered the arrogance and incompetence of the US and
> British administrations of these policies and their tragic consequences.
>
>
> Blog: http://kenthink7.blogspot.com/index.html
> Blog: http://kencan7.blogspot.com/index.html
>
>
> --- On Mon, 4/26/10, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>
> > Subject: [lbo-talk] Fred Halliday has passed away
> > To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
> > Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 3:27 PM
> > http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-–-2010<
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-%E2%80%93-2010
> >
> >
> > <
> http://www.opendemocracy.net/anthony-barnett/fred-halliday-1946-%E2%80%93-2010
> >Fred
> > Halliday died this morning in Barcelona where he had been
> > battling with
> > cancer. His twenty plus books (there are more to come), his
> > compelling
> > lectures, his wide ranging, powerful essays and journalism,
> > provided a
> > constant source of inspiration for many of us around the
> > world. He was a
> > like a one-man international: dedicated and passionate in
> > the cause of
> > justice; hard-headed in insisting upon the obstacles that
> > had to be
> > overcome; scathing about the stupidities of those who
> > proclaimed they were
> > the force of progress; constantly aware of the deeper
> > levels of cultural and
> > religious irrationality and its shaping power – and
> > capable of making
> > astoundingly well-informed judgments about almost anywhere
> > on the planet.
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