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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Israel arms sales peak despite Lebanon war fallout

Well, there you have it. Notwithstanding that arms deals may take many months and so started before the assault on Lebanon, that’s no excuse — isn’t the brutal occupation of … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who wants a civil war in Iraq?

My friend the Fanonite’s latest entry takes an important look at Iraq’s realities on the ground – check it out. Linking to a Channel 4 documentary, he draws upon Fisk … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Berger: We Must Speak Out

Guardian | 15 Dec 2006 Today we are launching an appeal for a world-wide cultural boycott against the Israeli state. John Berger writes: Today I am supporting a world-wide appeal … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

African tsunami

This cartoon won first prize in the United Nations Correspondent’s Association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award 2006. Second and third prize award cartoons as well as those cited-for-excellence can all … Continue reading

18 December, 2006 · 5 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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