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Category Archives: Human Rights

Was timing of Saddam’s verdict rigged for Bush?

Saddam’s time is up according to his pro-US administration would-be executioners … I am against the death penalty generally and this does not sit well with me particularly given the … Continue reading

6 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Howard government silent on human rights violations in Palestine and Lebanon

AUSTRALIANS FOR PALESTINE DEMOCRATS MEDIA Thursday 2 November 2006 SENATOR LYN ALLISON AUSTRALIAN DEMOCRATS LEADER Howard government silent on human rights violations in Palestine and Lebanon Senator Lyn Allison, Leader … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Growing up in Gaza, human and economic growth stunted by Israel

From this article about a boy’s hopeless vision of the future Half the population of Gaza is under the age of 18 Chronic malnutrition affects nearly 10 per cent of … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

International campaign for Gaza from Gush Shalom

Urgent appeal to make the month-long campaign a worldwide one Today two Palestinian women, taking part in a non-violent human shield action in Beit Hanoun were shot dead and numerous … Continue reading

4 November, 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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