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Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bombing Without Regrets: The US Has No Rules for Cluster Bombs

By Dave Lindorff | Counterpunch | 6 Sept 2006 Here’s a headline you won’t see in your local paper: “U.S. Accused of Using Cluster Weapons Against Civilians in Iraq and … Continue reading

7 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

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

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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