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Category Archives: Iraq

If you are against the war, take this Quiz

A thoughtful critical article by Danny Schechter CommonDreams.org | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Ok, class. No talking. Pencils up. All eyes on the exam. Here’s the first multiple-choice question: The … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Cry Iraq

Baghdad is under siege By Patrick Cockburn, Independent, 1 November 2006 U.S. Military Adopts Desperate Tactics Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service and DahrJamailIraq.com, 31 October 2006 Iraq … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Women in Black Petition Members of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Also in .pdf (8pp, opens in new window) Women in Black Los Angeles, PO Box 5341, Beverly Hills, CA, 90209 WomeninBlack @ gmail.com | October 30, 2006 Mr Avi Shoshani … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

The psychology of tikkun

Tikkun in Hebrew means to mend or heal, and tikkun olam (pronounced tee-koon oh-luhm) means “world repair” or to repair the world. It is the title of one of my … Continue reading

2 November, 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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