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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

McGreevy: Beautiful Beirut

Juan Cole Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: Beautiful Beirut Is a moment of crisis a time to understand a place? Or only a time to romanticize or demonize because our … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Barghouti: Salary problem not due to EU or US embargo, but to Israel’s theft of 600 million

Institute for Middle East Understanding This article was originally published by the Palestine News Network Aug 24, 2006 Qalqilia’s commerce and industry exhibit is in “clear defiance of the racist … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Activists Hang Banners Calling for an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel

Jewish Conscience Photos and info on the Philly banner drop, NYC demo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 22 Contact: [email protected] Philadelphia Jews Stand Against Israel’s War Crimes Activists Hang Banners … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Big Ag, Oil and Tobacco Will Kill You for a Profit

By Jane Smiley | HuffingtonPost.com/ AlterNet | Wednesday 23 August 2006 Since Reagan’s election, our government has catered to the needs of corporations that refuse to accept the destructive consequences … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a 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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