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‘Going blackwater’: profiteering and private armies

It has been quite a week for the US Congressional House Appropriations Committee (defense subcommittee), with two investigative journalists delivering their testimonies on war profiteering in the past week. The … Continue reading

14 May, 2007 · 5 Comments

Congressman Ron Paul in the GOP Presidential Debate

Compilation of Congressman Ron Paul‘s responses at the GOP Presidential Debate held on May 3rd, 2007. Just as with Gravel and Kucinich amongst the Democrats in their party nominee debate, … Continue reading

8 May, 2007 · 7 Comments

Oxford Union Doha Debate on Israel Lobby: video

The Doha Debates have been invited to hold an event at the Oxford Union, the debating society of Oxford University. The Debate took place on the 1st of May and … Continue reading

7 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

Yusuf Islam performing Peace Train at Nobel Concert

Yusuf Islam (formerly Cat Stevens) performs Peace Train in honour of 2006 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, economist and originator of microcredit Dr. Muhammad Yunus. Related posts: Muhammad Yunus Nobel Peace … Continue reading

5 May, 2007 · 2 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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