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Monthly Archives: July, 2008

Murdered for sport: Israel’s collective psychosis versus hasbara PR

Khaled Amayreh takes aim at the Israeli apartheid state’s collective psychosis in chilling but required reading, contrasting its PR campaign against the “evil other” with its own deplorable record on … Continue reading

22 July, 2008 · Leave a comment

Ni’lin نعلين‎: A West Bank Town’s Fight to Survive – Neve Gordon

Lone crazed bulldozer driver in Jerusalem: 3,500 news search hits Popular resistance of both Israeli Jews and Palestinians to protect West Bank border town of Ni’lin: 75 search results. In … Continue reading

20 July, 2008 · Leave a comment

Work, interrupted: the fragmentation of our attention

A culture of attention deficiency and distraction? An interesting recent discussion on Late Night Live (Radio National, Australia) about how many digital technologies are contributing not only to greater distraction … Continue reading

13 July, 2008 · 10 Comments

The Untold Story of Iraq

Two excellent recent videos discussing Iraq and US foreign policy. The first is a panel featuring Jeremy Scahill, Laila Al-Arian, Chris Hedges and Seymour Hersh and showcases an important and … Continue reading

8 July, 2008 · 3 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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