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Playing for Peace

Adapted from a snippet found in Rob Brezsny’s wonderful book: Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia, p. 149 Psychiatrist Stuart Brown sees ‘play’ as important to peace and as integral … Continue reading

4 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel, the traumatised bully

A perceptive (and one of the few sane) comments in the reader feedback section on Ha’aretz online. Ha’aretz is the better Israeli daily, though it still attracts the racist, intolerant … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Murdoch’s The Australian: Speaking UNtruth WITH Power

Pathetic and blatantly war-mongering, misleading Australian Editorial [with my comments bracketed in bold]: ‘A nuclear Iran is not an option’ | September 01, 2006 Unenforced deadlines make a mockery of … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger: Return Of People Power

Z-Net | 30 August 2006 In researching a new film, I have been watching documentary archive from the 1980s, the era of Ronald Reagan and his “secret war” against Central … Continue reading

31 August, 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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