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Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans

By Charles Sullivan | Counterpunch | 7 Sept 2006 It was a year ago that hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region of the USA, and left a path of … Continue reading

8 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa

by Michael Watts | September, 2006 | Monthly Review Michael Watts directs the Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Juan Cole: Bush Turns to Fear-Mongering Creation of “Islamic” Bogeyman

Informed Comment | Wed 6 Sept 2006 The Bush administration obviously wishes it were waging war on Nazi Germany. Even the old Soviet Union would be fine, these nostalgic Cold … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger :: Breaking the Silence

Worthwhile view. Run it while you’re doing other work and listen to the audio, which is alone worth a listen. Afghanistan has been off the radar of late and so … Continue reading

5 September, 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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