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Mistreating even the elderly in America’s Gulag

Lawyer: Guantanamo’s oldest detainee returned to Afghanistan Last Update: 8/29/2006 5:01:09 AMSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – An Afghan man in his 70s who used a walker to get around … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why It’s Not Working in Afghanistan

By Ann Jones TomDispatch Aug 27 Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Counterpunch :: 19-20 August, 2006 By STEPHEN FLEISCHMAN A self-fulfilling prophecy-as defined by Robert K. Merton, 20th Century sociologist who coined the phrase-is that a prediction, in being made, actually … Continue reading

21 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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