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Lebanese Waters Still Stained Black

Amid the fall-out from an assassination and political machinations of the political environment, lest we forget the ecology and its black mourning. Lebanese Waters Still Stained Black Meena S. Janardhan, … Continue reading

23 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Occupation 101

Full video (89 minutes)+ extended trailer (26 minutes) FULL DOCUMENTARY EXTENDED TRAILER (26 minutes) Occupation 101 site link ***Also recommended: Gaza’s Reality (ICH link; run-time 5 minutes)

21 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Off its rocker: apartheid state beating war drums

While the UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza even as Israel launches raids, the fear-mongering about Iran by Netanyahu continues, with … Continue reading

21 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

More Rumi-nations

I happened upon more great Rumi verse as I was working today, always good to read this great Persian poet. This is a nice allegory for the value of honouring … Continue reading

21 November, 2006 · 2 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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