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Revolutionary Oaxaca: From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power

By George Salzman | Counterpunch | August 30, 2006 Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

James Brooks: The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah

Counterpunch | 29 August, 2006 The Big Picture (Don’t Look, Now) Many peace activists may have felt somewhat bewildered by Hezbollah’s smashing success in outfoxing and outfighting the Israeli army … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Three Israelis go against tide of bellicose public opinion

What is it about Israeli society that makes it so seemingly oblivious to others’ suffering and so reprehensibly bellicose? Even the US has a healthy peace movement. Those shining jewels … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

GOP Congressmen Waste Billions of Local Taxpayer Dollars on Iraq Fiasco

NEW ‘Caught Red-Handed’ Report News Advisory  29 August 2006 U.S. Newswire A new report on the “Cost of Iraq” will be released on Wednesday, August 30, in twenty-five cities by … Continue reading

30 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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