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Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place

Beyond Iraq and a Hard Place

Great comedic overview of the US and UK with excellent impersonations and mock-ups. This Channel 4 comedy production is historically accurate with a satirical edge. Writers Geoff Atkinson and Rory … Continue reading →

5 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

Harold Pinter on the world’s Unpeople

Harold Pinter is a contemporary playwright, political activist and voice of conscience. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature a year and a half ago and his acceptance address … Continue reading →

5 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a political activist and journalist from Philadelphia who is on death row in Pennsylvania. He is in prison for the alleged shooting of a police officer in … Continue reading →

3 April, 2007 · 2 Comments
Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi

Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi

In honour of Palestine Land Day a couple of days ago on March 30th, two terrific addresses by the late, great Edward Said and the first Edward Said Chair of … Continue reading →

2 April, 2007 · 4 Comments

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"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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