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Harold Pinter on the world’s Unpeople

Harold Pinter is a contemporary playwright, political activist and voice of conscience. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature a year and a half ago and his acceptance address … Continue reading →

5 April, 2007 · 2 Comments
Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi

Edward Said and Rashid Khalidi

In honour of Palestine Land Day a couple of days ago on March 30th, two terrific addresses by the late, great Edward Said and the first Edward Said Chair of … Continue reading →

2 April, 2007 · 4 Comments
GWB Sums Up His Presidency

GWB Sums Up His Presidency

When the thief-in-chief is his own caricature, no satire is required. Now look, a lot of us um and aah and stammer on occasion. We’re all human. But we’re not … Continue reading →

11 March, 2007 · 23 Comments
Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on Iran

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on Iran

The long and the short, all most worthwhile. Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh draw on their expertise and experience to offer important … Continue reading →

2 March, 2007 · 12 Comments

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"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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