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Nobel Laureate vs IDF in peaceful protest: video

A few days ago, Irish Nobel Peace Prize laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire and fellow peace activists made headlines when teargassed and shot by rubber bullets as they engaged in a … Continue reading

28 April, 2007 · 7 Comments

Seymour Hersh interview: excerpts

Excerpted from Matt Tabibi, Cheney’s Nemesis in Rolling Stone (2 April 2007). It can be read in full here. During the Watergate years, you devoted a great deal of time … Continue reading

17 April, 2007 · 3 Comments

The media’s ‘fog facts’ on Iran

Fog facts? This is a description that attaches to facts that are apparently fogged out, unduly buried or consigned to the obscure section of a paper. In his book entitled … Continue reading

16 April, 2007 · 5 Comments

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

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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