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The Matrix of Control: from Israel to the World

An interesting interview with the international coordinator of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) Jimmy Johnson speaking about the extension of Israel’s matrix of control internationally, from Palestine outward.  This … Continue reading

8 September, 2009 · 1 Comment

Israeli policy as evil stupidity: Yeshayahu Leibowitz quotables

Cited in a recent Ha’aretz piece about the decline of the israeli left, the late academic Yeshayahu Leibowitz is described as remarking that he is not sure whether Israel’s policies … Continue reading

15 August, 2009 · 4 Comments

Brüno's So-Called 'Terrorist' Speaks Out

Sacha Baron Cohen, who makes low-grade shock comedies such as the moronic Borat, is an unreconstructed zionist. Some friends also find his politics distasteful but acknowledge Cohen’s comedic ‘talents’.  I … Continue reading

29 July, 2009 · 14 Comments

Music, The New York Times and the politics of a Palestinian state

Belén Fernández, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2009 On 31 May and 1 June of this year, two articles by culture reporter Daniel J. Wakin appeared on the The New … Continue reading

15 July, 2009 · 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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