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Monthly Archives: January, 2009

The Wounds of Gaza 2009

This first-hand field report and analysis comes direct from UK physicians Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah and Dr Swee Ang in Gaza. Please consider supporting their important medical efforts through any … Continue reading

30 January, 2009 · 2 Comments

Foiling Another Palestinian "Peace Offensive"

The israeli regime’s bloodbath wasn’t just about upcoming elections and re-establishing deterrence, Norman G. Finkelstein writes [doc], though it have much to do with this and was indeed calculated to … Continue reading

29 January, 2009 · 1 Comment

Music for Palestine I

We have seen visual artists, cartoonists and even athletes moved to join the cause for justice for Palestine; musicians and musical artists have also been active in solidarity and in … Continue reading

28 January, 2009 · 6 Comments

In Gaza, only the dead have seen the end of war: Vittorio Arrigoni

Read Vittorio’s dispatch in the original Italian. With a few possible word infelicities, this is a generally excellent translation. See also Vittorio’s Love under the bombs. For the living, no … Continue reading

27 January, 2009 · 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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