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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus

By Alex Steffen | WorldChanging Aug 2006 The Second Superpower – Cooperation, Politics and Activism What really threatens us? How do we truly make ourselves safer? The Cato Institute (a … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Irish academics call on EU to stop funding Israeli academic institutions

By David Landy | The Electronic Intifada | 16 September 2006 In a letter published in the Irish Times today (text below), 61 Irish academics from a wide variety of … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Deadly harvest: The Lebanese fields sown with cluster bombs

Lebanese villagers must risk death in fields ‘flooded’ with more than a million Israeli cluster bombs – or leave crops to rotBy Patrick Cockburn in Nabatiyeh | The Independent | … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli Visa Policy Traps Thousands of Palestinians in a Legal Quandary

NY Times | 18 September 2006 Rina Castelnuovo for The New York Times Sam Bahour at the Ramallah shopping center he built. Israel has effectively frozen certain immigration since the … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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