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Kashmir, vintage Led Zeppelin

As well as excellent content, Agent 99 has hands down some of the best images I’ve seen assembled in a blog. Recently, she has managed to find a rare clip … Continue reading

16 February, 2008 · 2 Comments

The Writing Is On The Apartheid Wall

Thank you to the Palestinian-Dutch group Send-A-Message for helping to deliver one of the most memorable acts of symbolic dissent to engage in. See also: More guerilla graffiti in the … Continue reading

8 February, 2008 · 9 Comments

Picks of 2007: William Dalrymple on East and West

Though choosing and upholding a single piece from all of last year would be too difficult from such a fertile field of good writing, I recently revisited this short article … Continue reading

18 January, 2008 · 6 Comments

On This Day in Peace History: the Greenham Common Women and other inspiring people power episodes

A very Happy New Year to you and yours. May 2008 be a good one for you personally and a more peaceful one for the world. We remember that these … Continue reading

31 December, 2007 · 9 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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