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Zizek: Hollywood’s attempts to mark the 2001 attacks ignore their political context

On 9/11, New Yorkers faced the fire in the minds of men Hollywood’s attempts to mark the 2001 attacks ignore their political context and the return to history they symbolise … 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

Jonathan Cook: Human Rights Watch, Lebanon and the Israel Lobby

Counterpunch :: 7 September, 2006 UPDATE: Human Rights Watch still denying Lebanon the right to defend itself: How Human Rights Watch Lost Its Way in Lebanon — The Israel Lobby … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 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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