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Monthly Archives: August, 2007

CBC’s The Fifth Estate: The Lies That Led To War

A refreshingly honest and well-made 43 minute documentary from Canada’s CBC, notwithstanding the implicit acceptance of other official lines. This Fifth Estate installment looks at the lies that led to … Continue reading

23 August, 2007 · 1 Comment

Neocon Historical Revisionism Revisited: the Case of Iran

UPDATED with additional links This image has already received a good airing in the blogosphere; following on the heels of Cheney’s near-sensible statements back in 1994 about the lunacy of … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

UK Peer Jenny Tonge speaks out for justice in Palestine

UPDATED: many thanks to Jenny Tonge for kindly responding to a query about full Hansard transcript availability which has allowed me to feature more of her address. Parliamentary debate transcripts … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 3 Comments

Unsettling the settlements

A mural on the apartheid wall imposed by Israel, courtesy http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com Articles of interest Sami Awad reports on the latest non-violent actions in Bil’in in “…then they fight you, then … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 1 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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