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2006 Right Livelihood Awards

The Right Livelihood Award is an alternative to the Nobel. Warm congratulations to the winners who lead by example. This is from OneWorld here RIGHT LIVELIHOOD AWARDS HONOUR PIONEERS FOR … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Subversive poetry – Israeli sympathetic to the Palestinian cause

An Israeli poet warbling outside the flock By: Najwan Darwish – occupied Jerusalem Translated by: Adib S. Kawar 23 September 2006 In time of war I side with the villages … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ain’t that the truth :)

“A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt as dangerous.” — Alfred Adler  

26 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gush Shalom ad in Haaretz, Sept. 22

Refreshing to read a good citation of this quote as an antidote to the tired refrain from the Israeli establishment that “there is no partner for peace” – hogwash and … Continue reading

25 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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