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Howard Zinn on keeping hope and perspective

Monte Asbury features a lovely post that excerpts the conclusion of Howard Zinn’s 1994 book You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. These … Continue reading

24 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Mikhail Gorbachev: A new cold war can be averted

History is not preordained: a new cold war can be averted US military arrogance has led to a global crisis. But there is still time to change course and build … Continue reading

19 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Students killed in Baghdad university bombing

I’m affected by a lot of news from Iraq, but the news of the bombing outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that killed seventy students, mostly female, and injured more than … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Authentic hope

Some very thoughtful words from Rebecca Solnit on our current condition in her excellent book, Hope in the Dark, p. 24: “Bush invited his constituency to be blind to the … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 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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