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Monthly Archives: March, 2009

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist Oliphant Under Fire … Again

Pat Oliphant is one of the most widely syndicated political cartoonists in the world. With a recent cartoon (published by the Washington Post, Slate, and Yahoo! News, among others) the … Continue reading

26 March, 2009 · 5 Comments

Tristan Anderson, the latest victim of Jewish state policies

Paul Larudee on the absurdity of enforcing a Jewish majority in Palestine, posted in a Bay Area paper. Dr. Paul Larudee is a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement Northern … Continue reading

26 March, 2009 · Leave a comment

Egypt's Zaballeen: 'Garbage Dreams'

Garbage Dreams follows three teenage boys born into the trash trade in Mokattam, a suburb of Cairo that is home to an Egyptian Christian minority of 60 000. The zaballeen, … Continue reading

25 March, 2009 · 1 Comment

Infinite Debt: The Legalised Crime Of Usury

One of the key contributing causes that led to the financial “crisis”, by Thomas Geoghegan’s reckoning, is the legalisation of usury. Related to and coupled with this, anti-labour laws and … Continue reading

23 March, 2009 · 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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