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Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Noam Chomsky: Latin America Declares Independence

IHT :: 3 October 2006 :: First published in NY Times Five centuries after the European conquests, Latin America is reasserting its independence. In the southern cone especially, from Venezuela … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

For the children: Education or mind infection?

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Waging war costs US $2 billion … per week

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn Peter Walker Thursday September 28, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn (£1.07bn) a week as … Continue reading

29 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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