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Letter in Independent from enlightened British Jew

Independent 10 August 2006 Sir: As a Jew (albeit a non-practising one) I am increasingly fed up with hearing about “2,000 years of persecution” culminating in the Holocaust (letters, passim), … Continue reading

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How I found myself with the Islamic fascists By Jonathan Cook

ICH 11 Aug 2006 Information Clearing House EXCERPT Living on the margins of any society is an alienating experience that few who are rooted in the heartland of the consensus … Continue reading

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Who benefits from security hysteria? By Gwynne Dyer

The Age 12 August, 2006 ‘I USED to know when I was being deeply cynical and when I wasn’t,” said a friend who just made it into London before they … Continue reading

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America Struggles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban by Pierre Tristam

Daytona Beach News-Journal Tue 1 Aug 2006 At this late stage of the Bush rapture, American evangelism is a lot like the Exxon Valdez: Massive, sloshing with oily energy and … Continue reading

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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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