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Caught in the net

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9 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Fisk: The Age of Terror – a landmark report

Robert Fisk looks back at lifetime of war coverage With chaos stretching from Afghanistan to the Mediterranean, we have never lived in a more dangerous time. Over the next 15 … Continue reading

9 October, 2006 · 3 Comments

Anna Politkovskaya, Rest In Peace

Anna Politkovskaya, journalist Born New York 1958; married (one son, one daughter); died in Moscow 7 October 2006. “My heroes are those people who want to be individuals, but are … Continue reading

9 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Leunig: Ban the Business Burqa

Suit and tied … oh, we are more free and progressive aren’t we? ;) ALSO SEE another whimsical Leunig cartoon (1984) to which I’ve just added a comment – this … Continue reading

9 October, 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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