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Category Archives: Colonialism

Pepe Escobar: Welcome to Planet Gaza

Accompanied by the superlative cartoonists Andy Singer and Carlos Latuff, here is Pepe Escobar in a piece aptly entitled Welcome to Planet Gaza (Asia Times Online, 22 Sept 2007). For … Continue reading

26 September, 2007 · 1 Comment

Chris Floyd on the Ethnic Cleansing of Iraq

With very few honourable exceptions, the Congressional RepublicoDemocratic War Party is at one in their policy toward Iraq. Those who expected Democratic leaders to suddenly recover backbone after the mandate … Continue reading

26 August, 2007 · 1 Comment

Unsettling the settlements

A mural on the apartheid wall imposed by Israel, courtesy http://bethlehemghetto.blogspot.com Articles of interest Sami Awad reports on the latest non-violent actions in Bil’in in “…then they fight you, then … Continue reading

19 August, 2007 · 1 Comment

Petitioning for social action

Do petitions matter? Do they help to effect social progress? In this 2 minute video Amnesty answer with a resolute (perhaps romanticised to some) yes. We do well to recall … Continue reading

30 July, 2007 · 10 Comments

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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