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Harold Pinter on the world’s Unpeople

Harold Pinter is a contemporary playwright, political activist and voice of conscience. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature a year and a half ago and his acceptance address … Continue reading

5 April, 2007 · 2 Comments

Quotables

Above: attributed to Australian Aboriginal activist Lila Watson “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” Frederick Douglass (1818 – 1895) “Hell is truth seen … Continue reading

30 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

How Americans Are Seduced By War

A thoughtful and worthwhile video lecture delivered in 2005 by Andrew Bacevich, who argues in his most recent book The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War that … Continue reading

29 March, 2007 · 3 Comments

Who wins in Iraq, FP asks

The current issue of Foreign Policy (March-April) has a ‘Who Wins in Iraq’ feature. The editors have compiled a Top Ten list of groups they see as having benefited most … Continue reading

27 March, 2007 · 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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