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Murdoch’s The Australian: Speaking UNtruth WITH Power

Pathetic and blatantly war-mongering, misleading Australian Editorial [with my comments bracketed in bold]: ‘A nuclear Iran is not an option’ | September 01, 2006 Unenforced deadlines make a mockery of … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Donor nations pledge $1b in aid for Lebanon

ABC Australia Last Update: Friday, September 1, 2006. 8:04am (AEST) Lebanese officials estimate the damage from the conflict is in the billions of dollars. (AFP) Donor nations have pledged $US940 … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The next United Nations leader: a time for transparency

By David Mepham | Open Democracy | 30 August 2006 The appointment of Kofi Annan’s successor is imminent. The incumbent has done well, the candidates are serious – but the … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ghali Hassan: Letter from Australia

Axis Of Logic | 30 August 2006 It is getting harder to describe Australia in term of an independent, democratic and morally responsible nation. Australia has moved from a forward … Continue reading

31 August, 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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