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The Israel Lobby: the documentary

This is the excellent first episode of a documentary on the influence in the US of the Israel Lobby by Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO. Marije Meermans and William de … Continue reading

13 April, 2007 · Leave a comment

A Man Without A Country: Vale Mr Vonnegut

American novelist Kurt Vonnegut has passed on, may he rest in peace. In an extract from his 2005 memoirs below, he voices his disenchantment and pessimism at the state of … Continue reading

13 April, 2007 · 4 Comments

Meet the Unpeople

“Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.” — African Proverb “And though tyranny, because it needs no consent, may successfully rule over foreign … Continue reading

6 April, 2007 · 34 Comments

Religious Peace Tax Freedom Bill

A most worthy proposal in the US. I wish we had a similar campaign here and elsewhere, but it matters most in the US by dint of the sheer size … Continue reading

3 April, 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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