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Bolivia: Peaceful revolution is taking shape

A rare interview with Evo Morales as he begins a profound transformation of his country by Judy Rebick | The Toronto Star | 9 September 2006 Sucre, Bolivia — On … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking national liberation movements

by Hamid Dabashi | Al Ahram Weekly | 7 – 13 September 2006, Issue No. 811  The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans

By Charles Sullivan | Counterpunch | 7 Sept 2006 It was a year ago that hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region of the USA, and left a path of … Continue reading

8 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 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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