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Pity the children: Innocents pay price of Gaza war

Dr. César Chelala reminds us of the human cost of war, and the terrible psychological scars and health costs borne by the most vulnerable. In this Gulf Times article (25 … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert Fisk on Jimmy Carter’s book in US

Fisk covers the reception of Carter‘s new book in the US corporate media whilst visiting. See here for excerpts of Carter’s book; to join the US AFSC campaign to Support … Continue reading

23 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Chomsky on Creating Another World in a Time of War, Empire and Devastation

A topically wide-ranging address from Noam Chomsky thanks to Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now! program. Democracy Now! Tuesday, December 19th, 2006 From Bolivia to Baghdad: Noam Chomsky on Creating Another World … Continue reading

20 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

African tsunami

This cartoon won first prize in the United Nations Correspondent’s Association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award 2006. Second and third prize award cartoons as well as those cited-for-excellence can all … Continue reading

18 December, 2006 · 5 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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