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Category Archives: Propaganda and psy-ops

Out of Iraq!

In the first month after the war on Iraq’s fourth anniversary, the war and occupation enters its fifth year with more disinformation continuing to come to light (testimony of Jessica … Continue reading

1 May, 2007 · Leave a comment

The media’s ‘fog facts’ on Iran

Fog facts? This is a description that attaches to facts that are apparently fogged out, unduly buried or consigned to the obscure section of a paper. In his book entitled … Continue reading

16 April, 2007 · 5 Comments

The hijacking of religion

Just a quick musing with recent links for now, rather than a post with more developed thoughts. Religion may always have been used as a political instrument as it became … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 10 Comments

Thank you, Roger Waters

You’ve made yet another appreciative fan, on both the musical and political fronts. The lyrics are marvelous. You won me when you graffitied the apartheid wall and stood up for … Continue reading

15 April, 2007 · 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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