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Meet Mohammed Omer, journalist, 22

Thanks to Servant at Ressentiment for bringing this information and Mohammed Omer tour to the fore. This remarkable young Gaza-born Palestinan journalist is currently completing a 15 city US speaking … Continue reading

6 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Growing up in Gaza, human and economic growth stunted by Israel

From this article about a boy’s hopeless vision of the future Half the population of Gaza is under the age of 18 Chronic malnutrition affects nearly 10 per cent of … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Dirty Water Kills 4,000 Children a Day

by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (IPS) – The statistics are mind-boggling: of the more than six billion people in the world today, over one billion have no access … Continue reading

7 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Militarisation of MySpace

Extraordinary. Now used as a source for military recruitment … I certainly won’t be joining this newly acquired Murdoch owned site!!    By Nick Turse :: Tom Dispatch :: 2 … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 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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