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Category Archives: Propaganda and psy-ops

The will to undemocratic power

by Philip S  Golub | September 2006 | Le Monde Diplomatique Even before the events of 11 September 2001, the heads of state in the United States and Britain concentrated … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger: No News Is Slow News

Z Net 15 September 2006 and Pilger.com When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing happened” … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘We were wrong over Lebanon’

Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire ‘mistake’ The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom … Continue reading

15 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Desmond Tutu: Arms trade is the new slave trade

Every year, small arms alone kill more people than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. Many more people are injured, terrorised or driven from their homes … Continue reading

14 September, 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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