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No Holiday

No Holiday

80 Places You Don't Want to Visit

by Martin Cohen
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2006

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In this first Disinformation Travel Guide, Martin Cohen visits exotic locations (80 of them!) but with a different aim than the usual travel book: to seek out the suffering and injustices, not to skirt them. We will see the dark red waters of "Murdering Creek" in Australia, silent testament to the ongoing genocide of the world's oldest people... we will visit the olive groves of Palestine where the helicopter gunships of the Israeli Army patter by like so many gigantic marauding insects, and we will queue up to see not museums and art galleries, but the more sinister monuments of politics, like the academy of terror funded by the CIA at Fort Benning in Georgia, or the poisoned shores of the Aral Sea revealing an abandoned biological warfare center...

We will visit not the great "sights" but the great "sores," the forever cursed cites of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, where so many died, as Churchill might have said, for so little. We'll enter the noman's lands of the demilitarized zones of past conflicts--between North and South Korea, between Syria and Israel, even between Catholic and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
ISBN:
9781932857290
9781932857290
Category:
Travel & holiday
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Disinformation Company
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
208
Dimensions (mm):
229x152x14mm
Weight:
0kg
Martin Cohen

Martin Cohen is a writer, reviewer and editor specialising in popular books in philosophy, social science and politics. Recent projects include How to Live (2014) and Critical Thinking Skills for Dummies (2015).

He has written about the politics of the climate change debate and has been invited by the Chinese government to discuss ecological rights and indigenous communities.

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