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The American proxy war in Gaza

Ali Abunimah’s op-ed properly situates the factional fighting in the OPT in the context of proxy wars and not as a result of wholly internal factors. Politics is never just … Continue reading

7 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

12 Methods For Keeping Your Outlook Positive

I first posted this here in September, and I think these wise reminders could do with another whirl right now. ;) This nice list has no indicated authorship; it was … Continue reading

1 February, 2007 · 3 Comments

Reaction to UN resolution condemning Holocaust denial

Some satirical relief about “singling out Israel” (a common refrain one hears when you justifiably protest Israel’s crimes, in addition to how outlandishly against it the UN is always supposed … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon

Mike Whitney responds to a short article by Fisk in The Independent that claims a civil war based on “sectarian hatred” is imminent. Many of the comments responding to the … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · 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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