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Category Archives: Sectarianism

Fisk on Putting Hatred On A Map

A very good Fisk piece on sectarianism and how the epistemological violence of imposed imperial cartographic division ultimately results in empirical, on the ground, violence. Put more simply, it is … Continue reading

4 March, 2007 · 5 Comments

New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh on CNN

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh expounds upon his important recent New Yorker article on CNN. In the article he says that the Bush administration is aiding jihadists through covert operations in … Continue reading

28 February, 2007 · 3 Comments

Information Warfare, Psy-ops and the Power of Myth

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe called architecture frozen music. For those who would wish to destroy the great Golden Dome Mosque in Iraq only to install the Golden Arches, there can … Continue reading

16 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Juan Cole: The danger of Bush’s anti-Iran fatwa

Juan Cole delivers an incisive and informed piece on the idiocy and implications of Bush’s dangerous and delusional new directive that US troops capture or kill Iranian “agents” in Iraq. … Continue reading

30 January, 2007 · 1 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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