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Category Archives: Iraq

Is There A Kosher Way to Criticize the Israel Lobby?

Matthew Yglesias ruminates on Wesley Clark’s recent interview that landed him in some Lobby trouble and the disparity between the mostly liberal Jewish community in the US and its more … Continue reading

27 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Scott Ritter: Stop the Iran War Before It Starts

Ritter lays out the case for greater Congressional checks on the Presidential war power, recommending legislative injunctions to nullify the War Powers’ authority granted to the President in September 2001 … Continue reading

26 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Peace takes courage

First caught this at Desert Peace’s place: these excellent videos are the creations of 16 year old Ava Lowery from Alabama. You can see all her videos at You Tube … Continue reading

25 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

On war

I first wrote about this in a post in November, but am recycling this great letter I found in the Nov-Dec issue of Tikkun magazine — the thoughtful commentary by … Continue reading

25 January, 2007 · 11 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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