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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Blood Diamonds, Transparency and the Emerging Power of Global Citizen Action

by Alex Steffen | World Changing  Diamonds, like barrels of oil, are worth cash money everywhere, and, again like oil, the international trade in diamonds has destabilized whole regions and … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Thoughtful commentary from Israeli commentator

The great escape | By Daniel Gavron Ha’aretz | 17 September 2006 There is something obsessive about our current compulsion to tinker with the framework of our governing bodies: a … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Non-Aligned Movement demands Israeli military withdrawal from Gaza

Lebanese President Emile Jamil Lahoud (L) chats with Cuban Education Minister Luis Ignacio Gomez (R) on his arrival at the Jose Marti Airport in Havana to participate in the Non-Aligned … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: Help! Peacemongers!

Gush Shalom | 16 September 2006 Excerpt A terrible enemy is conspiring to impose peace on us. He is advancing against us from two sides, in a giant pincer movement. … Continue reading

17 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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