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For the children: Education or mind infection?

Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem specializing in discourse in Israeli education with emphasis on visual and verbal presentation of Palestinian and … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Dugard’s integrity

UN says Gaza crisis ‘intolerable’ :: BBC Also see Reuters article in Ha’aretz : UN human rights envoy says Gaza a prison for Palestinians ****Read original primary source report to … Continue reading

27 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The war machine and ‘conscientious ignorance’

I like Cindy’s use of Martin Luther King’s phrase “sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” *** Victims of the war machine By Cindy Sheehan :: 25 Sept 2006 :: ICH Our … Continue reading

26 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

A Weekend with Nobel Peace Laureates

by John Dear :: September 24 2006 :: Common Dreams Inspiring … with positive visions and proposals. Archbishop Tutu’s opening words are also reminiscient of Gandhi’s remark that “poverty is … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · 3 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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