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A Tale of Two Cities II: Divided by the Wall in East Jerusalem

Terry Boulatta is an articulate guide and excellent Palestinian advocate. She offers a valuable human eyewitness and on-the-ground perspective on the injustices perpetrated against the indigenous Palestinans by the Israeli … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Is the Military Our Last Hope?

These two articles are a study in contrasts regarding the military. Reproduced in full below, Paul Craig Roberts looks at recent qualified comments by top brass in the US military … Continue reading

15 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Michael Leunig: They know not what they do

A moving piece by Australia’s much loved cartoonist and artist Michael Leunig about Australian Gitmo detainee David Hicks, his father’s fight for justice and the tentacles of militarism. The Australian … Continue reading

12 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Bill to restore the draft in the US + the DC peace rally

“Surge” or “Involuntary” Military Conscription: The Neo-Conservative Architects of Military Escalation by Michel Chossudovsky | GlobalReaseach.ca | January 26, 2007 Was it a coincidence? The Bill to restore the Draft … Continue reading

28 January, 2007 · 2 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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