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Robert Fisk on Jimmy Carter’s book in US

Fisk covers the reception of Carter‘s new book in the US corporate media whilst visiting. See here for excerpts of Carter’s book; to join the US AFSC campaign to Support … Continue reading

23 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

A woman’s place: Haredim society

Charles Fourier once astutely noted that “The degree of emancipation of woman is the natural measure of general emancipation.” That is, the degree of freedom women enjoy as their natural … Continue reading

22 December, 2006 · 6 Comments

Worse Than Apartheid

By Chris Hedges | TruthDig | 18 December 2006 Israel has spent the last five months unleashing missiles, attack helicopters and jet fighters over the densely packed concrete hovels in … Continue reading

20 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Berger: We Must Speak Out

Guardian | 15 Dec 2006 Today we are launching an appeal for a world-wide cultural boycott against the Israeli state. John Berger writes: Today I am supporting a world-wide appeal … Continue reading

19 December, 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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