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Monthly Archives: January, 2007

Reaction to UN resolution condemning Holocaust denial

Some satirical relief about “singling out Israel” (a common refrain one hears when you justifiably protest Israel’s crimes, in addition to how outlandishly against it the UN is always supposed … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon

Mike Whitney responds to a short article by Fisk in The Independent that claims a civil war based on “sectarian hatred” is imminent. Many of the comments responding to the … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

The political economy of escalation

John Damien posits what he sees as the likely material motive to the madness in BushCo’s planned escalation. While there may well be a intra-elite split in the US administration … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Why We Must Have Impeachment

The impeachment press is running hot. Apart from the many domestic abuses of the Bush and Cheney junta, Iran is the issue. That’s on top of Iraq and telling lies … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · 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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