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Sydney STW Coalition Press Release on Cheney’s Visit

Friends, yes, Dead Eye is in town, and the War Criminal is generating protests, traffic gridlock and mayhem all around my city. The taxidriver I had today reported that it … Continue reading

22 February, 2007 · 3 Comments

Affirm Life

affirm life. affirm life. we got to carry each other now. you are either with life, or against it. affirm life. Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian American poet. Her poetry … Continue reading

21 February, 2007 · 8 Comments

Pessoptimism on Iran: two perspectives

The variables that are not mentioned below are of course Israel, the Israel lobby and Russian and Chinese investment in Iran, amongst others. More explorations later on these. For now, … Continue reading

21 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

A tale of two cities: Baghdad

It was the best of times (for war profiteers), it was the worst of times …. Inside the Green Zone, the caricatures of American consumptive popular culture are on display … Continue reading

20 February, 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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