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Category Archives: Colonialism

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

Indigènes: enlarging France’s history

19 – 10 – 2006 :: Open Democracy A new French film exposes amnesia about the colonial subjects who fought for France and against fascism in the second world war. … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Niger delta: how to lift the oil curse?

by Timothy Sowula | Open Democracy | 19 October 2006 The hostage-taking strategy of militants in the oil-soaked Nigerian south is a symptom of the region’s economic and environmental breakdown, … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: Lunch in Damascus

Avnery is always a good read Once while, traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver–a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in … Continue reading

6 October, 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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