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How US merchants of fear sparked a $130bn bonanza

With so much money on offer and such riches being made, there is a powerful economic incentive to exploit the threat to America. The homeland security industry has an army … Continue reading

11 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Spotlight on Bendib’s Cartoons

For some intelligent comic relief :) Bendib’s site Some historically (and hysterically) spot on depictions of policy from this talented cartoonist, with his kind permission. Click on thumbnail for full-size: … Continue reading

10 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking national liberation movements

by Hamid Dabashi | Al Ahram Weekly | 7 – 13 September 2006, Issue No. 811  The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

How Hollywood softens us up for war, torture

Brought to you courtesy of the Military-Industrial *Entertainment* Complex Softening Us Up for Torture, 24 Hours at a Time by Dave Trotter | Lew Rockwell | 7 September 2006 EXCERPT … Continue reading

8 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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