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Venezuela’s Challenge To U.S. Pre-Eminence in Latin America by Matan Shamir

Council On Hemispheric Affairs Monday August 14 2006 Chávez’s rise to power represented the end of non-pluralist democracy in Venezuela. In the aftermath of September 11, the Bush administration has … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Demographic inequality: The boys are wanted, the girls aborted By Isabelle Attané

Le Monde August 2006 Number of men per 100 women Europe: 92.7 North America (US & Canada): 96.9 Latin America: 97.5 Oceania: 99.5 Africa: 99.8 Asia: 103.9 China: 105.6 India: … Continue reading

16 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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