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John Pilger: Cruelty and xenophobia shame and stir the lucky country

For North Americans, please note that Australia, like the US, has two major parties. The equivalent to the Republicans, its ideological allies, are actually called The Liberal Party, but they … Continue reading

20 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Consumerism and climate change

Charging Towards the Big Melt by Stephen Leahy BROOKLIN, Canada, Jan 15 (IPS) – Record retail store sales during the holiday season in North America is one reason 2007 is … Continue reading

19 January, 2007 · 6 Comments

Mikhail Gorbachev: A new cold war can be averted

History is not preordained: a new cold war can be averted US military arrogance has led to a global crisis. But there is still time to change course and build … Continue reading

19 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Consciousness-raising car mischief; climate change resets doomsday clock

UPDATED WITH DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT (appended below) Serious fun combines with mischievous consciousness-raising with balloons on tail-pipes in a German green campaign. It comes heartily endorsed ;) And wherever possible: … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 1 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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