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Is the neocon project on its last legs?

Sandy Huffaker An article in the weekend Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) asks, ‘Does the neocon parrot have a pulse?’ Let’s hope the rumours of the demise of this ghastly Imperial … Continue reading

25 February, 2007 · 7 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities II: Divided by the Wall in East Jerusalem

Terry Boulatta is an articulate guide and excellent Palestinian advocate. She offers a valuable human eyewitness and on-the-ground perspective on the injustices perpetrated against the indigenous Palestinans by the Israeli … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

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

A woman’s place: Haredim society

Charles Fourier once astutely noted that “The degree of emancipation of woman is the natural measure of general emancipation.” That is, the degree of freedom women enjoy as their natural … Continue reading

22 December, 2006 · 6 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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