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Imperial Parallels: Iraq

In many ways, 2007 is still mired in the twentieth century. Sometimes events are better markers than year numbers, and this past century has practically been bookended by British and … Continue reading

26 May, 2007 · 6 Comments

Home: justice for the Chagos Islanders

You may have read that the Chagos Islanders have won the legal right to go home, a victory delayed but a victory nevertheless. In the 1960s and 70s, this placid … Continue reading

25 May, 2007 · 6 Comments

Blog Picks

Monte Asbury, And Now, About That Iraqi Oil and Power Manipulates, heres its antodote (May 20 Sermon) M. Idrees Ahmad, The Nahr al-Bared Tragedy, Guardian Declares War on Iran and … Continue reading

23 May, 2007 · 3 Comments

Carter blasts Blair, calls Bush admin “worst in history”

Its true that when an establishment figure actually tells the truth in plain terms, minus the anodyne-speak of overly smooth politicians (and outright lies), they perhaps receive slightly more credit … Continue reading

21 May, 2007 · 3 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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