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Category Archives: Dissent

Norman the Lionheart

By now, you may know that Prof. Norman Finkelstein has been denied tenure at DePaul University in Chicago, where he has been an esteemed and highly regarded teacher since 2001. … Continue reading

9 June, 2007 · 9 Comments

War spinner gets honorary degree, graduates protest

Dissent lives in US universities. It gets a good workout when Iraq War salesmen, enablers of more overt war criminals such as Cheney and Bush and their neocon junta, are … Continue reading

4 June, 2007 · 6 Comments

John Pilger: “Gaza is a metaphor for the ME, and for the world”

Investigative journalist and filmmaker John Pilger talks about the occupation in Palestine, the war in Iraq, the state of mainstream journalism, and his new book Freedom Next Time on Flashpoints … Continue reading

20 May, 2007 · 1 Comment

The Money Changers

A very accessible overview about the role of money and the importance of currency and credit and its relationship with political events. With an American focus, it features fascinating facts … Continue reading

11 May, 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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