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Category Archives: Iran

Gaza Strip

I bought this 2002 documentary, Gaza Strip, only a few days ago. The expression of the boy on the dvd cover, he looks maybe ten, twelve, haunted me. It is … Continue reading

24 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

A dozen Guernicas: western war crimes

Richard Neville features a striking and sobering photo-poem entitled Merciless Savagery From The Sky: The Future of Bombing. Behold western war crimes: Neville enumerates the trail of death and destruction … Continue reading

22 March, 2007 · 2 Comments

Some good news for St Patrick’s Day

Yes, I know ’tis but a few twinkles and glimmers of hope, but in honour of St Patrick and for reasons of notching up some successes, here are some selected … Continue reading

18 March, 2007 · 15 Comments

The Israel Lobby Revisited: A Year Since Walt and Mearsheimer’s Paper

There are not too many academic papers that manage to make a splash in the policy world as well as academe. John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s paper on the role … Continue reading

14 March, 2007 · 18 Comments

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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