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Circus tricks: who will succeed Kofi Annan?

The machinations at the UN over who will be Kofi Annan’s successor show exactly why the security council needs reform – and why it won’t happen Essay by Paul Kennedy … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Tony Judt on the Strange Death of Liberal America

I’m a fan of Tony Judt’s writing. Also see his article on Israel: ‘The country that wouldn’t grow up’ as posted here London Review of Books | Vol. 28 No. … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Twenty Gandhis: 100 year Anniversary of Satyagraha

by Robert Koehler :: Huffington Post :: September 12, 2006 As the fifth anniversary of 9/11 approaches, many of the nation’s values — tolerance, forgiveness, personal freedom, perhaps even courage … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Day That Changed Everything Wasn’t 9/11

by Ira Chernus :: Tom Dispatch Yes, it changed everything – not Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers collapsed, but Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and … Continue reading

11 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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