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Uri Avnery: “I Am A Leftist, But …”

“Left, But…” I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word “but”. … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Videogames

From Sun Tzu to Xbox is a definitive history of the longstanding relationship between games and military culture, from wargaming’s roots in ancient civilizations, to the Cold War development of … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The evolution will be televised (and maybe podcast, too)

Selves and Others | Tuesday 5 September 2006, by Mickey Z. “Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.” Mark Twain Observation. There … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Alastair Crooke: New Orientalism’s ‘barbarians’ and ‘outlaws’

Daily Star | 5 September 2006 It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for clearing Hizbullah from … Continue reading

5 September, 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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