Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Category Archives: Racism

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

Zbigniew Brzezinski: Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’

Brzezinski on the cultivation and exploitation of a corrosive culture of fear for political purposes in the US and how it is in danger of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Terrorized … Continue reading

26 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

Outsourcing the Military: Blackwater and Bush

The second-largest army in Iraq does not belong to a country, it belongs to a corporation. They are the tens of thousands of private security contractors in which Blackwater dominates. … Continue reading

23 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Israeli Apartheid Comes to New Jersey

A very good piece by Saifedean Ammous in the Columbia Daily Spectator (rep. at Alternet), worth posting here in its entirety. Israeli Apartheid Comes to New Jersey By Saifedean Ammous … Continue reading

13 March, 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"


Categories