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Category Archives: Human Rights

US soldier atrocities in Iraq systemic

U.S. Soldiers Cavalierly Tell Of Rape and Suicide of 15 Year Old Iraqi Girl Video below – Should only be watched by a mature audience (verbal sexual references only). “Anyone … Continue reading

14 July, 2007 · 2 Comments

BBC journalist Alan Johnston free + I-P Recommended Reads

Good news just in that Hamas has secured the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston in Gaza. Johnston, the only western correspondent working full-time in Gaza, was held captive for … Continue reading

4 July, 2007 · 2 Comments

Johan Galtung: Conflict and Civilisation

Thanks to Agent 99 for pointing out the updated link, the first location of which had lapsed (also updated on audio page). I’ve taken the opportunity to upload this talk … Continue reading

29 June, 2007 · 5 Comments

Gaza: The Human Dimension

A vignette that speaks volumes (though Pierre Tristram attaches a worthwhile read to this poignant photograph, excerpted below): Tristram writes: There are no good cancer cells and bad cancer cells … Continue reading

25 June, 2007 · 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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