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Monthly Archives: June, 2009

Hold your applause

Chris Hedges is another one of the clear skeptics after Obama’s Cairo address; his sober assessment is a reminder of how grim things look from the pointy, receiving end of … Continue reading

9 June, 2009 · 1 Comment

Responses to Obama's Speech: An Attitudinal National and Ethnic Divide?

Links added In scanning the progressive press, I’d like to add an observation to Idrees’ survey of the online reaction to Obama’s speech about an interesting pattern that seems to … Continue reading

5 June, 2009 · 22 Comments

Israeli Exodus?

Eighteen months ago, Meir Margalit declared the zionist project all but over after the Israeli Hight Court handed down a response that the state was not responsible for providing absolute … Continue reading

4 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

Palestinians Remember: In Their Own Words

An excellent documentary that serves as an oral people’s history for Palestinian life before, during and after the Nakba. Filmed in over 15 countries and produced by Perla Issa, Aseel … Continue reading

2 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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