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Chavez puts Chomsky among bestsellers

Reuters :: September 22, 2006 08:31am VENEZUELAN President Hugo Chavez made headlines for his United Nations speech on Wednesday calling US President George W. Bush “the devil himself,” but a … Continue reading

22 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Mahmoud Darwish: Murdered Houses

Open Democracy :: 12 September 2006 “Everything ends in one minute.” openDemocracy publishes this “paragraph prayer” written by the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish in response to war’s crimes and destruction. … Continue reading

13 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Israel’s other war

by Omayma Abdel-Latif :: 7 – 13 September 2006, Issue No. 811 | Al-Ahram Weekly A little remarked consequence of Israel’s war on Lebanon is the destruction of culture, Omayma … Continue reading

13 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Best War Ever … spinning the war on Iraq

Even books have trailers these days (!) This is a good one. Stand-out phrase: Incestuous Amplication (=believing your own spin). Definitely worth a look. ‘The Best War Ever: Lies, Damned … Continue reading

13 September, 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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