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Meet the Counterterrorism-Industrial Complex

By Ken Silverstein :: Harper’s Magazine :: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 Related article of interest: see also How US Merchants of Fear Sparked a $130bn bonanza Last week I wrote … Continue reading

21 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gilad Atzmon: A Glimpse Into Israeli Collective Psychosis

‘Pre-Traumatic Stress Disorder – A Glimpse Into Israeli Collective Psychosis’, by Gilad Atzmon, 17 September 2006, Gilad.co.uk “It is hard to believe, but only 60 years after the Holocaust the … Continue reading

20 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Desmond Tutu: Arms trade is the new slave trade

Every year, small arms alone kill more people than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. Many more people are injured, terrorised or driven from their homes … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

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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