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Azmi Bishara on a ministry of strategic threats

Azmi Bishara is always a read I enjoy. In this week’s Al-Ahram Bishara writes that a Ministry of Strategic Threats comes right out of the theatre of the absurd that … Continue reading

5 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Earth. Best before: the Industrial Revolution

Cartoon by Stan Eales, from his wonderful First Book of Eco-Humour As the Chinese symbol for crisis also denotes opportunity, there’s a side of me that looks forward to what … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Avnery on Lieberman

“In all the 56 years of its existence, Israeli democracy has never been at such a low point as it is today.” by Uri Avnery| Gush Shalom IN ITS original … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

The psychology of tikkun

Tikkun in Hebrew means to mend or heal, and tikkun olam (pronounced tee-koon oh-luhm) means “world repair” or to repair the world. It is the title of one of my … Continue reading

2 November, 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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