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Category Archives: Civil liberties

Sherffius: The Lost America

by John Sherffius, Boulder Daily Camera PS I should add that for many around the world, it has not only been since 2001 that America’s beacon has been a cruel … Continue reading

23 February, 2007 · 22 Comments

Sydney STW Coalition Press Release on Cheney’s Visit

Friends, yes, Dead Eye is in town, and the War Criminal is generating protests, traffic gridlock and mayhem all around my city. The taxidriver I had today reported that it … Continue reading

22 February, 2007 · 3 Comments

Michael Leunig: They know not what they do

A moving piece by Australia’s much loved cartoonist and artist Michael Leunig about Australian Gitmo detainee David Hicks, his father’s fight for justice and the tentacles of militarism. The Australian … Continue reading

12 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Howard Zinn on keeping hope and perspective

Monte Asbury features a lovely post that excerpts the conclusion of Howard Zinn’s 1994 book You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. These … Continue reading

24 January, 2007 · 1 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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