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Category Archives: Afghanistan

Juan Cole: Bush Turns to Fear-Mongering Creation of “Islamic” Bogeyman

Informed Comment | Wed 6 Sept 2006 The Bush administration obviously wishes it were waging war on Nazi Germany. Even the old Soviet Union would be fine, these nostalgic Cold … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger :: Breaking the Silence

Worthwhile view. Run it while you’re doing other work and listen to the audio, which is alone worth a listen. Afghanistan has been off the radar of late and so … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger: Return Of People Power

Z-Net | 30 August 2006 In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his “secret war” against Central … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

James Brooks: The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah

Counterpunch | 29 August, 2006 The Big Picture (Don’t Look, Now) Many peace activists may have felt somewhat bewildered by Hezbollah’s smashing success in outfoxing and outfighting the Israeli army … Continue reading

30 August, 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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