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What you can do for Gaza

NB. This suggested action is from Norman Finkelstein and I am forwarding it on. I will be joining the campaign and writing a letter of support and hope you do … Continue reading

10 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli military stops cycling peace activists from entering Jenin

By Kate Thomas The Independent : 09 September 2006 Twenty-three peace activists cycling from London to Jerusalem to get wheels turning in the Middle East peace process will make a … Continue reading

10 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Light among the Ruins: the Israeli peace movement

by Conn Hallinan | Foreign Policy In Focus | 7 September, 2006 The images most Americans have of the recent war in Lebanon are of shattered cities, dead civilians, and … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · 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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