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Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address

“There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq” By Martin Lukacs The McGill Daily 31 October 2006 “The bad news,” investigative reporter … Continue reading

3 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Earth. Best before: the Industrial Revolution

Cartoon by Stan Eales, from his wonderful First Book of Eco-Humour As the Chinese symbol for crisis also denotes opportunity, there’s a side of me that looks forward to what … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

If you are against the war, take this Quiz

A thoughtful critical article by Danny Schechter CommonDreams.org | Tuesday, October 31, 2006 Ok, class. No talking. Pencils up. All eyes on the exam. Here’s the first multiple-choice question: The … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Cry Iraq

Baghdad is under siege By Patrick Cockburn, Independent, 1 November 2006 U.S. Military Adopts Desperate Tactics Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily, Inter Press Service and DahrJamailIraq.com, 31 October 2006 Iraq … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · 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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