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Hariri Tribunal: sarcastic — and serious — takes

Cartoon by Leba-none First, sarcastic humour alert. You may know that the supremely representative UN Security Council has voted to go ahead with a spurious court to prosecute the murder … Continue reading

31 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

Exceptionalism is the essence of immorality: the case of Israel

“The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself” Jane Addams (1860-1935) “The greatest of fault, I should say, is to be conscious of none” Robert … Continue reading

11 May, 2007 · 4 Comments

Nobel Laureate vs IDF in peaceful protest: video

A few days ago, Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and fellow peace activists made headlines when teargassed and shot by rubber bullets as they engaged in a … Continue reading

28 April, 2007 · 7 Comments

The media’s ‘fog facts’ on Iran

Fog facts? This is a description that attaches to facts that are apparently fogged out, unduly buried or consigned to the obscure section of a paper. In his book entitled … Continue reading

16 April, 2007 · 5 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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