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For the children: Education or mind infection?

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Did Israel Blow Up Gaza’s Power Station?

Bad Faith and the Destruction of Palestine By JONATHAN COOK Counterpunch :: 29 September 2006 A mistake too often made by those examining Israel’s behaviour in the occupied territories — … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Why Hamas Resists Recognizing Israel

Viewpoint: The West is betting that continued Palestinian misery will force Hamas leaders to recognize Israel. But the strategy is as misguided as it is cruel By Tony Karon :: … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 – 2006)

TruthDig :: 27 Sept 2006 :: With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a … Continue reading

28 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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