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Mike Whitney: The ‘Gaza Solution’ and Ongoing War on Islam

Nothing about the Gaza “open-air” detention facility is accidental. It’s a model that has been meticulously developed over 39 years.By Mike Whitney PalestineChronicle.com “People do not forget. They do not … Continue reading

3 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

How the dinosaurs became extinct

Thumb-nail – click on picture for full-size This cartoon is by the superlative David Pope (pen name Hinze).

30 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Iraq: The War of the Imagination

See also Civil War in Iraq Near, Annan Says: Study Group Begins Two-Day Meeting A book review by Mark Danner follows  New York Review of Books State of Denial: Bush … Continue reading

29 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela?

The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela? Review, The Economist, 25 November 2006 and rep at ei The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood By Rashid Khalidi, Beacon; … Continue reading

27 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

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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