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Category Archives: Civilisation

Historical geography of global religion in 90 seconds

Interesting site – http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/history-of-religion.html See also: Imperial history of the Middle East in 90 seconds (condensing 5000 years of history) and American Leadership and War (231 years of history condensed … Continue reading

4 January, 2007 · 7 Comments

Best wishes for a more peaceful and enlightened 2007

From David Baldinger ©: Cartoon above: Attribution in bottom left hand corner unclear; if you are or know the cartoonist, please contact me so I can credit this superb cartoon.

31 December, 2006 · 5 Comments

Uri Avnery: Sorry, Wrong Continent

Another thoughtful rumination from our favourite veteran Israeli peace activist. This dispatch is about how misplaced regional identity contributes to the I-P conflict and how this Israeli self-image and worldview … Continue reading

26 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

The view from the subaltern: our best hope against fascism

In social theory there is the notion that the view from the margins, from those most repressed, marginalised or oppressed, often offers the most prescient and trenchant insights into the … Continue reading

10 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

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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