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Guns and butter

The cartoon by Tohby Riddle below for me recalls Thomas Friedman’s oft-cited quote which just about every undergraduate international relations student knows (not that we’re of his ideological persuasion, mind, … Continue reading

17 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kerala logs Microsoft out

The remarkable southern Indian state of Kerala does it again. It has banned Coke and Pepsi and now is pursuing a policy of preference for Linux over proprietary software, amongst … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

2006 Right Livelihood Awards

The Right Livelihood Award is an alternative to the Nobel. Warm congratulations to the winners who lead by example. This is from OneWorld here RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARDS HONOUR PIONEERS FOR … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Circus tricks: who will succeed Kofi Annan?

The machinations at the UN over who will be Kofi Annan’s successor show exactly why the security council needs reform – and why it won’t happen Essay by Paul Kennedy … Continue reading

16 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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