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John Berger reads Ghassan Khanafani’s Letter from Gaza

In an address to the inaugural Palestine Festival of Literature (2008), John Berger gives a moving reading of Ghassan Khanafani‘s “Letter from Gaza“.

25 May, 2009 · 9 Comments

Lifeline to Gaza: the VivaPalestina story

PressTV has produced an excellent documentary centred on VivaPalestina‘s laudable efforts in bringing relief to Gaza. It follows the aid convoys through its extraordinary travails through several countries to reach … Continue reading

18 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

Israel’s covert war on Iran faces White House opposition

While there are a lot of (likely necessarily) unnamed sources and “officials say” in this piece by Richard Sale featured at Colonel Pat Lang’s Sic Temper Tyrannis, it is more … Continue reading

18 May, 2009 · Leave a comment

The Slow Death of Christian Bethlehem: what the Pope can do

Added: two videos I’ve been very critical of Pope Benedict for not including Gaza on his visit to Palestine. The circumstances surrounding his decision to visit are that he was … Continue reading

14 May, 2009 · 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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