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Author Archives: Belén Fernández

Music, The New York Times and the politics of a Palestinian state

Belén Fernández, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2009 On 31 May and 1 June of this year, two articles by culture reporter Daniel J. Wakin appeared on the The New … Continue reading

15 July, 2009 · Leave a comment

15th anniversary of AMIA bombing to be observed Friday, barring interference by IranAir

Walking down Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Buenos Aires the other day, I came across a succession of posters advertising “la penetración iraní en América latina” and featuring Hugo Chávez and … Continue reading

14 July, 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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