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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

The Israel Lobby: the documentary

This is the excellent first episode of a documentary on the influence in the US of the Israel Lobby by Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO. Marije Meermans and William de … Continue reading

13 April, 2007 · Leave a comment

A Man Without A Country: Vale Mr Vonnegut

American novelist Kurt Vonnegut has passed on, may he rest in peace. In an extract from his 2005 memoirs below, he voices his disenchantment and pessimism at the state of … Continue reading

13 April, 2007 · 4 Comments

In other news

Time-pressed Press-Picks Law Professor on No-Fly List Because Critical of Bush, asked about attendance at Peace Marches Michael Roston, Professor who criticized Bush told added to terrorist ‘no-fly’ list, Raw … Continue reading

11 April, 2007 · 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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