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Category Archives: Colonialism

Gaza: The Human Dimension

A vignette that speaks volumes (though Pierre Tristram attaches a worthwhile read to this poignant photograph, excerpted below): Tristram writes: There are no good cancer cells and bad cancer cells … Continue reading

25 June, 2007 · Leave a comment

The Six-Day War Deceptions, Dutch videos

A Dutch UN observer in 1966-67, Jan Muhren, describes how he witnessed how Israel provoked their Arab neighbours in the run-up to the Six-Day War on Dutch Nova TV (clips … Continue reading

9 June, 2007 · 4 Comments

Hariri Tribunal: sarcastic — and serious — takes

Cartoon by Leba-none First, sarcastic humour alert. You may know that the supremely representative UN Security Council has voted to go ahead with a spurious court to prosecute the murder … Continue reading

31 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

Home: justice for the Chagos Islanders

You may have read that the Chagos Islanders have won the legal right to go home, a victory delayed but a victory nevertheless. In the 1960s and 70s, this placid … Continue reading

25 May, 2007 · 6 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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