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Category Archives: Propaganda and psy-ops

Robert Fisk: Please spare me the word ‘terrorist’

Please spare me the word ‘terrorist’ Lebanon is a good place to find out what tosh the ‘terror’ merchants talk by Robert Fisk | The Independent | 3 Feb 2007 … Continue reading

4 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat

A clearly argued and straightforward piece by Frank Scott below. On the news front, the Turkish Daily News ominously reports that ‘US poised to attack,’ claims Bulgarian agency, while in … Continue reading

1 February, 2007 · 9 Comments

Juan Cole: The danger of Bush’s anti-Iran fatwa

Juan Cole delivers an incisive and informed piece on the idiocy and implications of Bush’s dangerous and delusional new directive that US troops capture or kill Iranian “agents” in Iraq. … Continue reading

30 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Thank you, Maureen Dowd

… for a memorable and entirely spot on dressing down of the presidential puppeteer, Dick Cheney. The whole NYT article entitled ‘Daffy Does Doom‘ is worth reading, but I’ve excerpted … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · 4 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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