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Category Archives: Political Economy

No room at the school unless you’re racially pure

Internal blatant discrimination against Israeli Arabs who make up a fifth of the population is well known and documented, as is the brutal and longest running occupation in modern times … Continue reading

4 September, 2007 · 2 Comments

Humanising the Hemisphere: John Pilger’s The War on Democracy

John Pilger‘s latest film, The War on Democracy (R/T 93 minutes) is an interesting and important excursion into the Latin American hemisphere and US foreign policy towards its southern neighbours. … Continue reading

24 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

UK Peer Jenny Tonge speaks out for justice in Palestine

UPDATED: many thanks to Jenny Tonge for kindly responding to a query about full Hansard transcript availability which has allowed me to feature more of her address. Parliamentary debate transcripts … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 3 Comments

Unsettling the settlements

A mural on the apartheid wall imposed by Israel, courtesy http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com Articles of interest Sami Awad reports on the latest non-violent actions in Bil’in in “…then they fight you, then … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 1 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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