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Chomsky on Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation

A topically wide-ranging address from Noam Chomsky thanks to Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! program. Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 From Bolivia to Baghdad: Noam Chomsky on Creating Another World … Continue reading

20 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Jimmy Carter: Speaking Frankly about Israel and Palestine

***See also Rabbi Michael Lerner’s ‘Thank you Jimmy Carter’, TomPaine (6 Dec.) ***See excerpts from Carter’s book here  LA Times | 8 Dec 2006 Nobel Laureate and Former US President … Continue reading

9 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hail Correa!

Chile, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Nicaragua, Venezuela and now, very likely Ecuador: In another electoral turn to the left for Latin America, 43 year-old economist-academic Rafael Correa looks set to … Continue reading

29 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rest of world cheers with US, but shocked at Beit Hanoun

First Muslim in Congress, first female House Speaker, Democrats rule the roost in both the House of Reps and Senate, Rummy resigns … whatever challenges and hurdles that lie ahead … Continue reading

9 November, 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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