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FAIR’s verdict on PBS Newshour

Study Finds Lack of Balance, Diversity, Public at PBS NewsHour Public TV’s flagship news program offers standard corporate fare Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) :: 4 October 2006 The … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Gaza solutions at hand, now implement them

The tide is turning belatedly in the midst of the staggering crisis in Gaza, as shown in the three articles below (verbatim excerpts). 1. Gideon Samet, Despite, not Because (Haaretz, … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The bright side of the dawn of the nuclear age

“The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed 60 years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” — Thomas Schelling, Acceptance … Continue reading

10 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Earth’s ecological debt crisis

An attempt to quantify our ecological ‘debt crisis’ in terms that are close to the hip-pocket nerve: “Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this … Continue reading

10 October, 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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