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The Best War Ever … spinning the war on Iraq

Even books have trailers these days (!) This is a good one. Stand-out phrase: Incestuous Amplication (=believing your own spin). Definitely worth a look. ‘The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned … Continue reading

13 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Delayed justice: Israeli court orders 18 Hamas officials released

View larger image Abdul Aziz Duaik, front, of the Islamic group Hamas, shouts out to journalists as Hamas lawmaker Mohammed Abu Teir, right, looks on at the Ofer Military court … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Settler guilty of W Bank murders

Chilling … Settler guilty of W Bank murders BBC :: 11 Sept 2006 Asher Weisgan was disarmed after killing four settlement employees An Israeli court has convicted a Jewish settler … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Day That Changed Everything Wasn’t 9/11

by Ira Chernus :: Tom Dispatch Yes, it changed everything – not Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers collapsed, but Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and … Continue reading

11 September, 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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