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What you’re not shown about Israel

If you haven’t already viewed this trailer for If Americans Knew, it is an excellent compilation of prominent previous US Representatives, Senators and Ambassadors talking about the consequences of blind … Continue reading

18 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Caught out: IDF used human shields; Lebanon war planned in advance

A few Quick Links to news over the past few days that Israel’s IDF has used human shields (outlawed in both international and Israeli law) and Olmert’s admission that the … Continue reading

12 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Who is in Iraq?

While the coalition of “the willing” in Iraq has turned into the coalition of the leaving (troops from Italy, Spain, Ukraine, Japan and New Zealand have already wisely left), three … Continue reading

10 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

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

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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