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The Day That Changed Everything Wasn’t 9/11

by Ira Chernus :: Tom Dispatch Yes, it changed everything – not Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers collapsed, but Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and … Continue reading

11 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Spotlight on Bendib’s Cartoons

For some intelligent comic relief :) Bendib’s site Some historically (and hysterically) spot on depictions of policy from this talented cartoonist, with his kind permission. Click on thumbnail for full-size: … Continue reading

10 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lessons from Lebanon: Rethinking national liberation movements

by Hamid Dabashi | Al Ahram Weekly | 7 – 13 September 2006, Issue No. 811  The key question in drawing any enduring lesson from Lebanon in the aftermath of … Continue reading

9 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ethnic Cleansing in New Orleans

By Charles Sullivan | Counterpunch | 7 Sept 2006 It was a year ago that hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast region of the USA, and left a path of … Continue reading

8 September, 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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