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Wars robbing youth of school

BBC :: Tuesday 12 September 2006 Only a small number of children in conflict zones enjoy an education At least 43 million children around the world are unable to go … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa

by Michael Watts | September, 2006 | Monthly Review Michael Watts directs the Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bill Fletcher: ‘An Unimaginable Loss of Life’

Black Commentator :: 31 August 2006, Issue 195   

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Francis Fukuyama: the “end of history” revisited

The “end of history” symposium: a response Open Democracy 25 August 2006 An openDemocracy symposium on Francis Fukuyama’s work features leading critics who question the arguments of the renowned author’s … 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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