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Juan Cole: The danger of Bush’s anti-Iran fatwa

Juan Cole delivers an incisive and informed piece on the idiocy and implications of Bush’s dangerous and delusional new directive that US troops capture or kill Iranian “agents” in Iraq. … Continue reading

30 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

On war

I first wrote about this in a post in November, but am recycling this great letter I found in the Nov-Dec issue of Tikkun magazine — the thoughtful commentary by … Continue reading

25 January, 2007 · 11 Comments

Howard Zinn on keeping hope and perspective

Monte Asbury features a lovely post that excerpts the conclusion of Howard Zinn’s 1994 book You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. These … Continue reading

24 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Lest we forget who the warmongers are re Iran …

The Likudnik neocons in the US are refusing diplomacy, are shunning the advice of better, more level-headed people both within the administration and from other governments trying to help broker … Continue reading

20 January, 2007 · 3 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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