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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

Uri Avnery: “I Am A Leftist, But …”

“Left, But…” I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word “but”. … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Alastair Crooke: New Orientalism’s ‘barbarians’ and ‘outlaws’

Daily Star | 5 September 2006 It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for clearing Hizbullah from … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

US Army Contemplates Redrawing Middle East Map to Stave-off Looming Global Meltdown

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed | 2 Sept 2006 | Dissidentvoice In a little-noted article printed in early August in the Armed Forces Journal, a monthly magazine for officers and leaders … Continue reading

3 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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