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Jonathan Cook takes Robert Fisk to task

Counterpunch 5 September, 2006 Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For a Champion of Truth to Speak Up By Jonathan Cook Nazareth. More than a little uncomfortably, … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger :: Breaking the Silence

Worthwhile view. Run it while you’re doing other work and listen to the audio, which is alone worth a listen. Afghanistan has been off the radar of late and so … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight

Excellent analysis  American support for Israel’s unwinnable aim of destroying Hizbullah only boosts its support in Lebanon and beyond 1 Sept 2006 | The Guardian In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Keith Olbermann: rare light on the American journalistic lansdcape

This video clip is an impressively thoughtful dissenting commentary on Rumsfeld, fascism, democracy and the lessons of history, refreshingly surprising for mainstream US television. Well worth a listen. Run time … Continue reading

2 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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