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John Berger: We Must Speak Out

Guardian | 15 Dec 2006 Today we are launching an appeal for a world-wide cultural boycott against the Israeli state. John Berger writes: Today I am supporting a world-wide appeal … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

African tsunami

This cartoon won first prize in the United Nations Correspondent’s Association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award 2006. Second and third prize award cartoons as well as those cited-for-excellence can all … Continue reading

18 December, 2006 · 5 Comments

About Face: Soldiers Call for Iraq Withdrawal

The Nation | 16 Dec 2006 Marc Cooper writes: “For the first time since Vietnam, an organized, robust movement of active-duty US military personnel has publicly surfaced to oppose a … Continue reading

17 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Give out more goodness than you were given

This is a nice piece by Richard Glover in this Saturday’s Sydney Morning Herald (16 Dec) and just the kind of timely reminder we could do with before the festive … Continue reading

17 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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