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No bravery

There are several videos set to James Blunt’s ‘No Bravery’. I have picked two, run-times 4:32 and 4:02 respectively. Lest we forget the people of Iraq and the human dimension … Continue reading

11 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Fisk on Putting Hatred On A Map

A very good Fisk piece on sectarianism and how the epistemological violence of imposed imperial cartographic division ultimately results in empirical, on the ground, violence. Put more simply, it is … Continue reading

4 March, 2007 · 5 Comments

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on Iran

The long and the short, all most worthwhile. Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh draw on their expertise and experience to offer important … Continue reading

2 March, 2007 · 12 Comments

Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough

Sacred Geometry and Holy Numbers, Batman, the Al-Gebra movement really were gifted in Weapons of Maths Instruction. The intricate patterns and architectural wonders of Islamic architecture and art were not … Continue reading

27 February, 2007 · 4 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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