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Venezuelan Foreign Minister Illegally Detained at JFK Airport and Strip-Searched

Stephen Lendman :: ZNet :: September 25 2006 … Venezuelan Foreign Minister Nicolas Madura was prevented by airport officials from departing the US from JFK airport on a commercial flight … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

If America’s So Great, Where’s Our Health Care?

Also see Seth’s Sandronsky’s Counterpunch piece, The Cruel Economics of Health Care in America  Lack of health insurance kills six times as many Americans each year as 9/11 did. By … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Doomsday Code (or ‘cult’?)

What a ‘revelation’ (boom tish) – these apocalyptic ‘end-time’ evangelicals are the biggest obstacle to peace, I’m sure I’m not the first person to opine. My Christianity is NOT theirs … Continue reading

24 September, 2006 · 4 Comments

Why Pakistan Gets A Nuclear Pass

Long but worthwhile piece In These Times :: September 22, 2006 The Bush administration’s pragmatic policy toward Pakistan suggests its foreign policy is less ideological than imperial. By Lakshmi Chaudhry … Continue reading

24 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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