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Jonathan Cook on Divide and Rule — A Tale of Two Occupations

In Divide and Rule, Israeli-Style: Can the Arab World be Turned into Gaza’s Jailers? (jkcook.net and Counterpunch, June 26, 2007), Jonathan Cook has written another grim but worthwhile article on … Continue reading

28 June, 2007 · 4 Comments

Peace geographies: the Global Peace Index

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” — Marcel Proust The world contains both relative peaceful oases as well as conflict … Continue reading

26 June, 2007 · 12 Comments

June 2007, hopeful movement towards justice

UPDATED As the British academics UCU boycott bites (coming after UK union boycott calls from doctors, architects as well the National Union of Journalists in the last twelve weeks alone), … Continue reading

13 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Howard Zinn interview on Al Jazeera

Howard Zinn interviewed on the Riz Khan program. Part One (7m) Part Two (7:23)

12 June, 2007 · 2 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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