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War profiteering in Iraq: the private Pentagone contractors

NB. The spelling of PentaGONE is deliberate … Ismael Hossein-Zadeh provides a most important reminder that war is a racket. An academic economist and an Iranian-born Kurd who has been … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Get Carter

Important article from Chris Hedges who hits the proverbial nail on the lobbywatch head in the upcoming January 8, 2007 print edition of The Nation: Jimmy Carter, by publishing his … Continue reading

24 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert Fisk on Jimmy Carter’s book in US

Fisk covers the reception of Carter‘s new book in the US corporate media whilst visiting. See here for excerpts of Carter’s book; to join the US AFSC campaign to Support … Continue reading

23 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

The KGB, Yagoda and Stalin’s Jews

A courageous and much needed historical counterweight and corrective by Sever Plocker, who is receiving the typical hate responses on Y-Net for even putting this on the table. He writes: … Continue reading

23 December, 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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