Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Category Archives: Lebanon

Civilians pay the price: US arms sales to the ME

ADDENDUM: A great flash animation by Mark Fiore on the topic at hand: with thanks to the wonderful David Baldinger The Bush administration has just recently announced plans for a … Continue reading

3 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

Arab divas: three generations

Friends, hope you have a terrific weekend; I’ll be back on the blog deck proper next week, but in the meanwhile, here’s a musical interlude. For some, this may be … Continue reading

21 July, 2007 · 5 Comments

BBC journalist Alan Johnston free + I-P Recommended Reads

Good news just in that Hamas has secured the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston in Gaza. Johnston, the only western correspondent working full-time in Gaza, was held captive for … Continue reading

4 July, 2007 · 2 Comments

John Pilger: Freedom Next Time, video

John Pilger speaking about corporate journalism, war, history and truth at a Chicago conference on Sat 16 June 2007. He really hits his stride around the fifteen to twenty minute … Continue reading

2 July, 2007 · 10 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"


Categories