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Johan Galtung: Conflict and Civilisation

Thanks to Agent 99 for pointing out the updated link, the first location of which had lapsed (also updated on audio page). I’ve taken the opportunity to upload this talk … Continue reading →

29 June, 2007 · 5 Comments

Conversations with bigotry: on Israel, Islam and Ideologues

Encounter with Sigmund, Carl and Alfred ** SEE ALSO: Israeli funding for Hamas plus: note to Sigmund Carl and Alfred Can one hold a civil conversation with a racist Israelfirstophile … Continue reading →

19 June, 2007 · 5 Comments
The hijacking of religion

The hijacking of religion

Just a quick musing with recent links for now, rather than a post with more developed thoughts. Religion may always have been used as a political instrument as it became … Continue reading →

15 April, 2007 · 10 Comments

A Man Without A Country: Vale Mr Vonnegut

American novelist Kurt Vonnegut has passed on, may he rest in peace. In an extract from his 2005 memoirs below, he voices his disenchantment and pessimism at the state of … Continue reading →

13 April, 2007 · 4 Comments

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"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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