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Brother of the Fist: The Passing of Peter Norman

Peter Norman’s recent passing received some muted coverage here in Australia and I’m proud of what this man stood for in solidarity with Tommie Smith and John Carlos. These two … Continue reading

15 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: The Great Experiment

14 October 2006 IS IT possible to force a whole people to submit to foreign occupation by starving it? That is, certainly, an interesting question. So interesting, indeed, that the … Continue reading

15 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

A Soldier Hoped to Do Good, but Was Changed by War

By LAURIE GOODSTEIN Published: October 13, 2006 | NY Times FORT BRAGG, N.C., Oct. 12 — Sgt. Ricky Clousing went to war in Iraq because, he said, he believed he … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Tony Judt: Outspoken and outcast

Alterman on Judt – I’m a fan of both. UPDATE in the Jewish Week by Editor-at-large Larry Cohler-Esses: ‘L’Affaire Judt Rattles ADL; High-Brows Snub Foxman‘ (20 October) by Eric Alterman … Continue reading

14 October, 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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