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‘Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind’

An excellent TED talk by Wade Davis on endangered languages and the ethnosphere. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous cultures, disappearing from the … Continue reading

8 January, 2010 · 2 Comments

Terrorists R US

An excellent short testimony from Mike Prysner, an Iraq war veteran connecting the dots between corporatism and militarism. To learn more about Michael Prysner and the organization he helped co-found, … Continue reading

7 January, 2010 · 8 Comments

A Girl Called Jewel

The extended Al Samouni family, some 48 men, women and children, were targeted in their homes by the israeli occupation forces in the south of Gaza. Almost all of them … Continue reading

6 January, 2010 · Leave a comment

Off the chart: US and world health care costs compared

A dramatic graphic recently put together at the National Geographic blog compares a selection of industrialized countries’ health care spending with their life expectancy. The US is literally off the … Continue reading

6 January, 2010 · Leave a 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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