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What Women Are Saying About The Violence In the Middle East

By Lucinda Marshall | Countercurrents.org | 06 September, 2006 There has been no shortage of punditry when it comes to the current crisis in the Middle East, however most of … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

In Africa, Women Stride Into Power By Laurie Goering

Chicago Tribune | Wednesday 16 August 2006Kigali, Rwanda – Sweden and Norway once claimed the world’s highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda. … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Demographic inequality: The boys are wanted, the girls aborted By Isabelle Attané

Le Monde August 2006 Number of men per 100 women Europe: 92.7 North America (US & Canada): 96.9 Latin America: 97.5 Oceania: 99.5 Africa: 99.8 Asia: 103.9 China: 105.6 India: … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Offshoring to the West Bank: commercial and political exploitation of stolen land By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde August 2006 Residents of Modi’in Illit do not consider themselves settlers. The housing shortage has pushed large ultra-orthodox families to the settlement where they get public housing and … Continue reading

16 August, 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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