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Michael Leunig: They know not what they do

A moving piece by Australia’s much loved cartoonist and artist Michael Leunig about Australian Gitmo detainee David Hicks, his father’s fight for justice and the tentacles of militarism. The Australian … Continue reading

12 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

The American proxy war in Gaza

Ali Abunimah’s op-ed properly situates the factional fighting in the OPT in the context of proxy wars and not as a result of wholly internal factors. Politics is never just … Continue reading

7 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat

A clearly argued and straightforward piece by Frank Scott below. On the news front, the Turkish Daily News ominously reports that ‘US poised to attack,’ claims Bulgarian agency, while in … Continue reading

1 February, 2007 · 9 Comments

Liberty and email privacy in the US

In launching the ICH blog as a sister site to his excellent Information Clearing House, Tom Feeley has informed readers that the blog URL has an ‘eu’ address because the … Continue reading

21 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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