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Impeach Bush for Blowing the Job

David Swanson has collected some rather humorous impeachment slogans: Fund Bridges, not Wars We Want Our Billion Dollars and Our Troops Back Build This Country, Stop Bombing Others New York, … Continue reading

12 August, 2007 · Leave a comment

A Year On: Survivors of the Summer War

These clips are from Al Jazeera a couple of weeks ago on the 27th July (H/T Norman Finkelstein), and a timely marker of the one year anniversary of Israeli government … Continue reading

11 August, 2007 · Leave a comment

On this Day: a date that lives in infamy

“First I sold my television, then my furniture, then my car, then my house,” said Mohammed Abdul Razaq, a retired office worker. “Everything that I built up over a lifetime … Continue reading

6 August, 2007 · 5 Comments

Petitioning for social action

Do petitions matter? Do they help to effect social progress? In this 2 minute video Amnesty answer with a resolute (perhaps romanticised to some) yes. We do well to recall … Continue reading

30 July, 2007 · 10 Comments

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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