Some 50 Republican "foreign policy experts," self-proclaimed insiders whose insights led the United States into a disastrous and still burning war in Iraq, have recently published a "we believe" letter in the New York Times reviling Donald Trump and deriding him as unsuited to take up the reins of U.S. foreign policy.
The poems in Harsent's collection include violent and disturbing images of martyrdom by being burnt at the stake, book burning, war and decay.
The burning presaged war.
American cities were burning, the war in Vietnam and the protests against it were escalating, and a new revolutionary consciousness was in the air, somehow shared by college students and third-world guerrillas, by artists and the urban poor.
This morning the BBC bravely handed over the Today programme to PJ Harvey as guest editor, clearly unconcerned that she might well use the opportunity to take a piercing look at the burning civil war and witch trial issues of 1647.
For some four decades, the island had been fighting a slow-burning war of independence against its long-time overlord, the Italian Republic of Genoa (at the time, Italy was not yet a united country).
Hoping to take advantage of this, Mr. Mockus's Green Party has campaigned on a platform of social inclusion, battling corruption and finding alternative methods to fight crime, appealing to the many voters who want to focus on issues other than the slow-burning war against cocaine-trafficking rebel groups.
The raid followed an unusually bloody stretch in Colombia's slow-burning war of attacks and counterattacks, which had claimed the lives of dozens of guerrillas and more than 50 members of security forces since Colombia's new president, Juan Manuel Santos, was inaugurated in August.
All sides in the slow-burning war in Congo appealed today for the United Nations to deploy peacekeepers swiftly in the vast Central African country after another cease-fire in the 18-month-old conflict was signed in the Ugandan capital this weekend.
The war brought down the Fourth Republic, returned Charles de Gaulle to power, and left rage in its wake .The loss of Algeria was experienced in France as a sort of amputation," says Benjamin Stora, a French historian, "The subject is still burning, and the war of memories is fierce".
The rest of the ballet normally goes like this: businesses begin pulling back their operations (as Apple has shut down its Russian online store); the central bank keeps burning through its war chest (which in Moscow's case is huge: it's spent $90bn so far this year, and has over $400bn spare); then there is talk of a bank run, or of the government imposing capital controls.
