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Inhabited island disappears off the face of the map: climate change casualty

The Independent’s environment editor Geoffrey Lean reports that climate change has claimed its first wholesale victim, the previously inhabited (population: 10, 000) island of Lohachara near India. Disappearing world: Global … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 10 Comments

Azmi Bishara on the Holocaust

Azmi Bishara, writing in Al Ahram 21-27 Dec 2006 Issue 825

27 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Merry Christmas!

UPDATED A very Merry Christmas to you and yourn (just learnt from Kilroy this is Olde American), and may it be an enjoyable, safe, reflective and happy one. From Australia … Continue reading

26 December, 2006 · 9 Comments

Uri Avnery: Sorry, Wrong Continent

Another thoughtful rumination from our favourite veteran Israeli peace activist. This dispatch is about how misplaced regional identity contributes to the I-P conflict and how this Israeli self-image and worldview … Continue reading

26 December, 2006 · 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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