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Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Is There A Kosher Way to Criticize the Israel Lobby?

Matthew Yglesias ruminates on Wesley Clark’s recent interview that landed him in some Lobby trouble and the disparity between the mostly liberal Jewish community in the US and its more … Continue reading

27 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Scott Ritter: Stop the Iran War Before It Starts

Ritter lays out the case for greater Congressional checks on the Presidential war power, recommending legislative injunctions to nullify the War Powers’ authority granted to the President in September 2001 … Continue reading

26 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Jimi Hendrix Peace Quote

  When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace. Jimi Hendrix This also recalls a quote from a Trappist monk I posted in … Continue reading

26 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Israel rewrites history with impunity, but Iran is vilified for discussing it

This piece appeared in Canadian Arab News and is reproduced at Greg Fulton.com (January 18, 2007). Fulton highlights the discrepancy between attacking one country’s officials for putting historical research on … Continue reading

26 January, 2007 · 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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