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Earth. Best before: the Industrial Revolution

Cartoon by Stan Eales, from his wonderful First Book of Eco-Humour As the Chinese symbol for crisis also denotes opportunity, there’s a side of me that looks forward to what … Continue reading

2 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Add urbicide to Israel’s crimes: Nablus

**See also the Jewish Voice for Peace delegation to Nablus, Day Two. Palestinians in Nablus lament their “dying” city By Dean Yates :: Reuters | AlertNet A Palestinian man walks … Continue reading

27 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Former Dep. Mayor of Jerusalem tells it like it is

By Meron Benvenisti | Ha’aretz | 20 October 2006 Approval of Moshe Safdie’s plan for expanding Jerusalem westward has been deferred once more, making it the latest – but not … Continue reading

22 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Autogeddon: one of my fav poems

A U T O G E D D O N An excerpt from the epic poem by Heathcote Williams from Whole Earth Review, Fall 1987: 26-29. Excerpts available online here … Continue reading

18 October, 2006 · 1 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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