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Vicki Gray: The Militarisation of the American Language

t r u t h o u t | Wednesday 30 August 2006 Once was a time when we used to joke that military justice is to justice as military … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Language and Politics

Wrong War, Wrong Word by Katha Pollitt | The Nation posted August 24, 2006 (September 11, 2006 issue) If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush … Continue reading

27 August, 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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