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Joe Klein launches a truth rocket, but …

… doesn’t himself quite escape the gravitational pull of the Israel-first mentality. At least, so far. First, credit where its due: Time’s political columnist Joe Klein joins a growing number … Continue reading

1 August, 2008 · 11 Comments

Israel, Palestine, and the US Congress: CNI Event

Three video clips from the Council for the National interest (CNI) Public Forum event: Israel, Palestine, and the US: Realities and Opportunities at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol … Continue reading

24 July, 2008 · Leave a comment

Oybama: the most promising candidate disappoints with pandering to hardliners

When Barack Obama, the most promising Presidential candidate in a generation, out-Bushes Bush in bellicose and Likudnik rhetoric on I-P and Iran, there is cause for concern. His turn-about and … Continue reading

6 June, 2008 · 3 Comments

Mearsheimer and Finkelstein debate and other Al Jazeera coverage on the Israel Lobby

Al Jazeera has produced a few programs recently that engage with the topic of the Israel Lobby; the Inside Iraq program features a short debate between John Mearsheimer and Norman … Continue reading

10 April, 2008 · 19 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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