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Our Cities Are Killing Us By Julie Robotham and Sherrill Nixon

Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 16 August 2006 Think of it as a vast experiment in human biology. Put millions of people in a limited space, then crank a few levers: … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Why there has to be a ceasefire By Former Australian PM Malcolm Fraser

Malcolm Fraser was PM of Australia from 1975 to 1983 The Age August 2, 2006 The longer an end to the fighting is delayed, the harder it will be to … Continue reading

2 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon war: the normalisation of barbarism By Ghassan Hage

[Abridged from a speech given by Allisar Gazel on behalf of Ghassan Hage at the 20,000-strong July 22 rally in Sydney against Israeli aggression. Gazel is the dean of anthropology … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Turning Lebanon into another Iraq

Green Left Weekly (Australia) August 2, 2006On July 23, defence minister Brendan Nelson announced that Canberra is willing to contribute armed Australian soldiers to a “robust” (meaning armed and prepared … Continue reading

1 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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