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Israel bombs Gaza cemetery as Gazan deathtoll exceeds 1000

Al Jazeera’s Mike Hana (3.19)

15 January, 2009 · 2 Comments

Five Honest Representatives: House Resolution 34

“Everything is changing”, Will Rogers once opined. “People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.” These five US House Representatives are an exception, honourably voting NO … Continue reading

13 January, 2009 · 1 Comment

Maps of devastation

UPDATE: see addendum below During the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon and much of its civilian infrastructure, many civil society groups got busy producing hourly updated maps that were an … Continue reading

12 January, 2009 · 5 Comments

A Sderot woman speaks out against Israel's brutal folly

Nomika is a member of a rare (for Sderot) peace group named Other Voices (Kol Aher, site in Hebrew). Her testimony below, translated from the Hebrew by Assaf Oron, provides … Continue reading

12 January, 2009 · 4 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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