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Joyeux Noël, two scenes

Two memorable clips from the movie Joyeux Noël (2005) set in the so-called ‘Great War’ (though there’s nothing ‘great’ about war!), centered around the true story of the Christmas Truce … Continue reading

25 December, 2008 · 3 Comments

Picks of 2007: William Dalrymple on East and West

Though choosing and upholding a single piece from all of last year would be too difficult from such a fertile field of good writing, I recently revisited this short article … Continue reading

18 January, 2008 · 6 Comments

IHT’s The Worlds Top Ten Most Liveable Cities

Click here for slide show Decidedly Eurocentric with only one Asian and one North American city. Oh, my bold and brassy city is #7. The public transport system could do … Continue reading

1 November, 2007 · Leave a comment

More from the Peoples History of APEC 2007

4 short videos from APEC 2007 follow. H/T Green Left Weekly The High School Walkout Against Bush; US Marine (7.36) Bush, Howard, USA! How Many Kids Have You Killed Today! … Continue reading

8 September, 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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