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Monthly Archives: February, 2009

Overcoming Impunity: Joel Kovel

An excellent piece from Joel Kovel, which appears in The Link v. 42 ( 1), Jan – Mar 2009, published shortly before Professor Kovel’s abrupt and prejudicial termination as Alger Hiss … Continue reading

19 February, 2009 · 3 Comments

A fraud bigger than Madoff

Senior US military personnel are being investigated over billions of Iraq reconstruction dollars that are missing, Patrick Cockburn writes, as much of the activity in the promised reconstruction of Iraq … Continue reading

16 February, 2009 · Leave a comment

Reflections Of War: Sherine Tadros and Ayman Mohyeldin

Ayman Mohyeldin Sherine Tadros An excellent, must-see review of israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza with first-hand accounts and reflections from Al Jazeera correspondents Ayman Mohyeldin and Sherine Tadros, in 4 … Continue reading

15 February, 2009 · 5 Comments

French academics join the call for boycott

Their statement follows in English and French. UPDATE See also an April 2010 video clip of the action protesting the naming a Paris street after war criminal Ben Gurion. Israel’s … Continue reading

15 February, 2009 · 2 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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