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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

Rima Merriman: Israel’s freeze on visas

Dissecting Israel’s freeze on visas Rima Merriman, The Electronic Intifada, 13 September 2006 New Jewish immigrants from North America and Britain walk arrive at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN trade body sounds alarm on Palestinian economy

Its hard not to see this deliberate and horrific strangling of an economy and an entire peoples as part and parcel of a deliberate Israeli strategy of preparing the ground … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Desmond Tutu: Arms trade is the new slave trade

Every year, small arms alone kill more people than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. Many more people are injured, terrorised or driven from their homes … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Language matters: Drop the War Metaphor

Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor by George Lakoff and Evan Frisch | Common Dreams | 11 Sept 2006 Language matters, because it can determine how we think … Continue reading

14 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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