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War spinner gets honorary degree, graduates protest

Dissent lives in US universities. It gets a good workout when Iraq War salesmen, enablers of more overt war criminals such as Cheney and Bush and their neocon junta, are … Continue reading

4 June, 2007 · 6 Comments

Hariri Tribunal: sarcastic — and serious — takes

Cartoon by Leba-none First, sarcastic humour alert. You may know that the supremely representative UN Security Council has voted to go ahead with a spurious court to prosecute the murder … Continue reading

31 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

Mairead Corrigan Maguire’s Address to EU Parliament

NEW! Transcript appended, with great thanks to Dean. An inspirational short address by Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire to the EU Parliament’s “50 years of the EU: … Continue reading

29 May, 2007 · 3 Comments

Voice in the Wilderness: Ron Paul in second debate

Revised 20 May 2007 with links added — Thanks to Miche for pointing out these vids. Ron Paul shows he has a better grasp of foreign policy and consistency of … Continue reading

17 May, 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"


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