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BBC clarifies its language policy on I-P

Below are recently updated BBC guidelines for coverage of the conflict (12 October) Israel and the Palestinians: Key terms The BBC Governors’ independent panel report on the impartiality of BBC … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ahmadinejad steals the show in New York

It seems Iran’s Ahmadinejad has made quite a splash at the UN gathering in New York. See his address to the UN General Assembly and this review article in the … Continue reading

22 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Language matters: Drop the War Metaphor

Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor by George Lakoff and Evan Frisch | Common Dreams | 11 Sept 2006 Language matters, because it can determine how we think … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Defining terror: rest of the world want ‘real-world’ definition

**Also see Non-Aligned Against NeoLiberalism ** Nonaligned want terrorism redefined By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 12, 3:48 PM ET AP Photo: Cuba’s Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque … Continue reading

13 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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