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James Bovard: Killing in the Name of Democracy

Lew Rockwell.com President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. Unfortunately, he is only the latest in a string of presidents who … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger: Return Of People Power

Z-Net | 30 August 2006 In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his “secret war” against Central … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Francis Fukuyama: the “end of history” revisited

The “end of history” symposium: a response Open Democracy 25 August 2006 An openDemocracy symposium on Francis Fukuyama’s work features leading critics who question the arguments of the renowned author’s … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism?

By Thom Hartmann | ICH | 29 Aug 2006 In the years since George W. Bush first used 9/11 as his own “Reichstag fire” to gut the Constitution and enhance … Continue reading

30 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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