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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Circus tricks: who will succeed Kofi Annan?

The machinations at the UN over who will be Kofi Annan’s successor show exactly why the security council needs reform – and why it won’t happen Essay by Paul Kennedy … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ratzinger’s zingers

As a Catholic, albeit lapsed, I wasn’t thrilled with the choice of hardliner Cardinal Ratzinger, now His Holiness Pope Benedict, as Pope. Here’s his speech that has inflamed some of … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The will to undemocratic power

by Philip S  Golub | September 2006 | Le Monde Diplomatique Even before the events of 11 September 2001, the heads of state in the United States and Britain concentrated … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger: No News Is Slow News

Z Net 15 September 2006 and Pilger.com When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing happened” … Continue reading

16 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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