British Library Newspaper Archive: Hellenist propaganda sources checked

Over on Cultural Heritage in Conflict, I've checked some of my sources' (supposed) sources in the British Library's newspaper archive.

In this post, I've checked John Fielding's writing about Jacques Dalibard's suppressed UNESCO report, and thus Michael Jansen's use of John Fielding's study of the Rape of Northern Cyprus

As always, it's a good example of clever Hellenist propaganda.

I'm behind on other work, and I'm going away without most of my research materials, so it may be a long time before I get to go through the rest of the documents.

Kios / Istinjo / Tabanlı, Cyprus: evacuated village, destroyed

Over on Cultural Heritage in Conflict, I've introduced my site photo blog on the Turkish Cypriot village of Kios/Istinjo/Tabanlı, by reviewing the evidence that the abandoned or evacuated village has been destroyed.

distortion of history: Coufoudakis' and Republic of Cyprus' opinion on destruction of Cypriot cultural heritage

Prof. Van Coufoudakis wrote about the Destruction of Cultural Heritage in a Greek Cypriot government booklet, Human Rights Violations in Cyprus by Turkey.

Over on human rights archaeology, I used the booklet and public discussion of Coufoudakis's work to study the opinion of the "progressive" government of the Republic of Cyprus.

The "new" position is the old one, a distortion of history: "Cypriot" cultural heritage is Greek Cypriot cultural heritage; Turkey was the only human rights violator; and Greek Cypriots were the only victims.

Given their progressive public stance, the official booklet's Hellenist nationalist distortion is contradictory and depressing.

debunking mistakes and misrepresentations of Hellenist witnesses for U.S. Helsinki Commission

I finally posted a review debunking the U.S. Helsinki Commission's Hellenist witnesses, over on human rights archaeology.

Warning: it is a super-loser-length blog post; the soundtrack is the final sigh of my patience, and I think it has more value as a debunking than as a light read, unless you enjoy observing me entering a world of pain.

Equality Trust's Kate Pickett: 'we need equality as a substitute for growth'

Philobiblon has a post on a speech by the Equality Trust's Kate Pickett, in which she quickly demonstrated how 'growth has been used as a substitute for equality', and why it ought not to be.

Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett were the authors of the Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better: here is their evidence; and here are a report and a review of the book.