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Monthly Archives: January, 2009

The Bush Years: Hangover from Idiocy Binge + Obama’s First 100 Minutes

11 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Admitting War Crime On Prime Time: Cheney Overdue For Hague

MSNBC Rachel Maddow commenting on Cheney’s recent admission that he and the White House approved torture; Ron Suskind is also interviewed. Part I (11 minutes; Part Two over the jump)

11 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

A Sign of the Times

A sign of the times this week at both the eponymous TIME and the New York Times that there has been unprecedented mainstream media criticism directed at Israel’s strategic and … Continue reading

10 January, 2009 · 1 Comment

US House Resolution 34 Refuted

See also: Five Honest Representatives: House Resolution 34 Amid growing calls of Israeli war-crimes and an unprecedented and rarely-voiced level of criticism from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), … Continue reading

10 January, 2009 · 2 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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