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Category Archives: Military-Industrial Complex

John Pilger: Freedom Next Time, video

John Pilger speaking about corporate journalism, war, history and truth at a Chicago conference on Sat 16 June 2007. He really hits his stride around the fifteen to twenty minute … Continue reading

2 July, 2007 · 10 Comments

US Mil in Iraq: The Bases Are Loaded

Will the U.S. ever leave Iraq? While official policy portends an eventual departure and US Republicans such as Senator Richard Lugar are on record as speaking out and calling for … Continue reading

2 July, 2007 · 3 Comments

The obsessive racist rants of Sigmund, Carl and Alfred

Thanks to everyone for their expressions of support regarding the pitiful smear by the Arab-hate blog ‘Sigmund Carl and Alfred’ (SC&A) — or “Siggy” as he wants to be known … Continue reading

30 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

Exporting Apartheid: Israel’s war turned into a brand

I’ve just noticed this Naomi Klein piece, published in the Guardian last Saturday (16 June): How war was turned into a brand. It adds another dimension to the burgeoning ‘Homeland … Continue reading

23 June, 2007 · 14 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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