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Category Archives: Colonialism

Ethnic cleansing by L’Oreal: “Because you’re worth less?”

At some point last year, I was introduced to Amina Mire’s work on skin bleaching. I was reminded of Amina’s essay Pigmentation and Empire when coming upon two of these … Continue reading

14 July, 2007 · 53 Comments

US soldier atrocities in Iraq systemic

U.S. Soldiers Cavalierly Tell Of Rape and Suicide of 15 Year Old Iraqi Girl Video below – Should only be watched by a mature audience (verbal sexual references only). “Anyone … Continue reading

14 July, 2007 · 2 Comments

Why Palestine Matters By Roger H. Lieberman

Thanks as well as a hat tip to the great ladies at Jordan Journals for making this article available. Unless you have a print subscription to the Jordan Times, this … Continue reading

13 July, 2007 · 6 Comments

Jewish History, Anti-Semitism, and the Challenge of Zionism: Braverman’s Reply to Rosenfeld

A very insightful and well argued piece from Mark Braverman. Braverman is a member of the Washington Interfaith Alliance for Middle East Peace and Jewish Voice for Peace. He serves … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · 2 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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