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Iran, Israel and the UNSC: Press Picks

The Likudniks are war-mongering again, and have been for some time, towards Iran. Scott Ritter joins Seymour Hersch in issuing warnings about the neocon war plans which we can not … Continue reading

30 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Palestine 2006: occupation crimes continued unabated

When will the Israeli Likudniks renounce violence and recognize the Palestinians’ right to exist? 2006 has seen the number of Palestinians — many of them children and non-combatants — killed … Continue reading

30 December, 2006 · 1 Comment

Great cartoon moments 2006 # 1 (Mr Fish)

Mr Fish captures it well with one sentence. Like others, I watched the bombings of Lebanon and its civilian infrastructure, the deaths of hundreds and the oil spill disaster with … Continue reading

29 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Rebecca Solnit: The 2006 You Didn’t Hear About

I read Rebecca Solnit’s Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities earlier this year and recommend it highly. She continues in the same vein of reminding us of victories, … Continue reading

29 December, 2006 · 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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