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Category Archives: Lebanon

Thank you, Roger Waters

You’ve made yet another appreciative fan, on both the musical and political fronts. The lyrics are marvelous. You won me when you graffitied the apartheid wall and stood up for … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 3 Comments

Petras on Zionism, Puppet Regimes and Political Allies

A very good analytical overview piece from James Petras (see also related recent post on economic empire building here). In this article he focuses upon the influence of Israel and … Continue reading

5 April, 2007 · Leave a comment

Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi

In honour of Palestine Land Day a couple of days ago on March 30th, two terrific addresses by the late, great Edward Said and the first Edward Said Chair of … Continue reading

2 April, 2007 · 4 Comments

Isabel Magalhães: O Mundo ao Contrário

Found this lovely painting by way of UrShalim‘s blog. “O MUNDO AO CONTRÁRIO” Isabel Magalhães is a gifted Portuguese artist and painter. She dedicated this 2005 stunner – “The World … Continue reading

31 March, 2007 · 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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