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Monthly Archives: June, 2009

Three inspiring women, a movement sails forth again

Latest from Free Gaza: In three days, the Free Gaza movement sails 240 miles from Cyprus to Gaza, its eighth mission to break Israel’s draconian siege on 1.5 million Palestinians … Continue reading

23 June, 2009 · 1 Comment

Iraq, AfPak, beyond: the global cost of war

While the toxic phrase “war on terror” has fallen out of use, the destructive effects continue amid increases in military spending against an economic downturn, making for a recession-proof weapons … Continue reading

21 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

Extra! Extra! Hasbara inserts in US newspapers

It seems lots of freebies come as newspaper inserts these days, some innocuous like posters and memorabilia and music cds, others far more dangerous like the ‘terror’ dvd distributed in … Continue reading

16 June, 2009 · 7 Comments

Absurdity is the norm in Gaza

In addition to the Free Gaza Movement’s siege-breaking boats, delegations to Gaza like CodePink have been doing indispensable work, bearing witness to conditions in the Gaza Ghetto and israel’s continued … Continue reading

14 June, 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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