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Monthly Archives: June, 2007

Peace geographies: the Global Peace Index

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust The world contains both relative peaceful oases as well as conflict … Continue reading

26 June, 2007 · 12 Comments

Gaza: The Human Dimension

A vignette that speaks volumes (though Pierre Tristram attaches a worthwhile read to this poignant photograph, excerpted below): Tristram writes: There are no good cancer cells and bad cancer cells … Continue reading

25 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Vivacious visual wordplay

I wonder what yet-to-be released neglected gems we each have in our drafts folders? A quick look through my altogether too many drafts revealed this one I’d scanned in but … Continue reading

23 June, 2007 · 10 Comments

Exporting Apartheid: Israel’s war turned into a brand

I’ve just noticed this Naomi Klein piece, published in the Guardian last Saturday (16 June): How war was turned into a brand. It adds another dimension to the burgeoning ‘Homeland … Continue reading

23 June, 2007 · 14 Comments

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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