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Billion Dollar Brains: How Wealth Puts Knowledge in its Pocket

From the Vaults II: This is the second article of a series on foundations, academia and their role in Empire-building, first published in 1969. The first article can be read … Continue reading

11 December, 2008 · 1 Comment

A glass half full: small but significant victories

Celebrating two significant recent victories for justice. 1. Anthropologist Professor Abu El-Haj Granted Tenure At Columbia Congratulations to Barnard’s Nadia Abu El-Haj for duly being awarded academic tenure. For this … Continue reading

3 November, 2007 · Leave a comment

Joel Kovel, Overcoming Zionism video, and a Message From Howard Zinn

UPDATE: See also Zionist Pressure Fails to Stop Overcoming Zionism Book Dr. Joel Kovel is an author, editor, activist and former psychotherapist whose new book Overcoming Zionism is a contribution … Continue reading

10 October, 2007 · 4 Comments

Conversations with History Hour with Mearsheimer and Walt, video

Stephen M. Walt and John J. Mearsheimer as featured in UC Berkeley’s Conversations With History interview series hosted by Harry Kreisler. 61-minutes

9 October, 2007 · 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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