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Monthly Archives: May, 2007

Mairead Corrigan Maguire’s Address to EU Parliament

NEW! Transcript appended, with great thanks to Dean. An inspirational short address by Irish Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire to the EU Parliament’s “50 years of the EU: … Continue reading

29 May, 2007 · 3 Comments

Imperial Parallels: Iraq

In many ways, 2007 is still mired in the twentieth century. Sometimes events are better markers than year numbers, and this past century has practically been bookended by British and … Continue reading

26 May, 2007 · 6 Comments

Chalmers Johnson audio: Our Own Worst Enemy

A worthwhile and enjoyable (while a sobering topic, Johnson’s humour and wit shine through) short interview with the author of Blowback and Nemesis, Chalmers Johnson, as broadcast by Pacifica Radio’s … Continue reading

25 May, 2007 · Leave a comment

Home: justice for the Chagos Islanders

You may have read that the Chagos Islanders have won the legal right to go home, a victory delayed but a victory nevertheless. In the 1960s and 70s, this placid … Continue reading

25 May, 2007 · 6 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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