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Uprooted: a documentary by Donia Mili

An excellent documentary and personal journey by Donia Mili. Its long-ish but most worthwhile. H/T: Picked up by the always excellent Tom Feeley at ICH; with thanks to Khobbeizeh for … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · Leave a comment

John Perkins Medley: Economic Hit Man/ Secret History of the American Empire

An ‘Economic Hit Man’ perspective on waging (economic) war in service of corporate-led globalization from former economic hit man (EHM) John Perkins. In his book Confessions of an Economic Hitman … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · 1 Comment

Development I: the Modern Mexican Parable

UPDATED A great anonymously written allegory, illustrating how “development” is a loaded term and concept. It also is a nice simple parable that illustrates the value of taking time to … Continue reading

5 July, 2007 · 18 Comments

BBC journalist Alan Johnston free + I-P Recommended Reads

Good news just in that Hamas has secured the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston in Gaza. Johnston, the only western correspondent working full-time in Gaza, was held captive for … Continue reading

4 July, 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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