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On war

I first wrote about this in a post in November, but am recycling this great letter I found in the Nov-Dec issue of Tikkun magazine — the thoughtful commentary by … Continue reading

25 January, 2007 · 11 Comments

Students killed in Baghdad university bombing

I’m affected by a lot of news from Iraq, but the news of the bombing outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that killed seventy students, mostly female, and injured more than … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Its oil about oil: recent press picks

Its all about OIL, as Ray McGovern pithily notes: “O for oil; I for Israel; and L for Logistics, meaning the military bases deemed by neoconservatives as necessary to protect … Continue reading

15 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

War profiteering in Iraq: the private Pentagone contractors

NB. The spelling of PentaGONE is deliberate … Ismael Hossein-Zadeh provides a most important reminder that war is a racket. An academic economist and an Iranian-born Kurd who has been … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 2 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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