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Monthly Archives: May, 2009

Sri Lanka: Distant Voices, Desperate Lives – John Pilger

The Sri Lankan government used Israel’s actions in Gaza as their model for slaughter, Pilger writes. In the early 1960s, it was the Irish of Derry who would phone late … Continue reading

22 May, 2009 · 1 Comment

Lifeline to Gaza: the VivaPalestina story

PressTV has produced an excellent documentary centred on VivaPalestina‘s laudable efforts in bringing relief to Gaza. It follows the aid convoys through its extraordinary travails through several countries to reach … Continue reading

18 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

Israel’s covert war on Iran faces White House opposition

While there are a lot of (likely necessarily) unnamed sources and “officials say” in this piece by Richard Sale featured at Colonel Pat Lang’s Sic Temper Tyrannis, it is more … Continue reading

18 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

What goes around …

A very good visual campaign — one of four posters — for the Global Coalition for Peace. See the rest of the posters at the Inspiration Room (thanks Dean).

14 May, 2009 · 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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