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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

America Struggles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban by Pierre Tristam

Daytona Beach News-Journal Tue 1 Aug 2006 At this late stage of the Bush rapture, American evangelism is a lot like the Exxon Valdez: Massive, sloshing with oily energy and … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon Oil Spill May Rival Exxon Valdez of 1989

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Lebanon’s oil spill, caused by Israeli bombardment of oil storage units at a power plant, may rival the leakage from the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Johan Galtung on the Middle East

3rd.August 2006 [email protected] The unspeakable tragedy unfolding in this sixth Israel-Arab war should force us to focus on what peace might look like. The building blocs are clear, but they … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

God’s chosen people By Jostein Gaarder

Aftenposten (Norwegian original here) | 5 August 2006 Read reaction at this Ha’aretz article here Read Readers letters published in Aften posten here (English) Read author’s follow up in Afterposten … Continue reading

11 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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