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Meet Mohammed Omer, journalist, 22

Thanks to Servant at Ressentiment for bringing this information and Mohammed Omer tour to the fore. This remarkable young Gaza-born Palestinan journalist is currently completing a 15 city US speaking … Continue reading

6 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN General Assembly Declines Vote on Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

December 4, 2006 | Cultural Survival Article Called Indians, First Peoples, Aborigines, Eskimos, or the names they call themselves – Wampanoag, Pokomam, Batwa, or MakMak – indigenous peoples are among … Continue reading

4 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bridging the Digital Divide with $150 laptops

Its all too easy to see why this commendable initiative is being derided by MS and Intel – it doesn’t use Windows and runs in competition with their attempts to … Continue reading

3 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Dugard: Israelis adopt what South Africa dropped

Testimony from a man who ought to know, this is an important statement that deserves circulation. Diogenes, we found another one! ;) As we say in Australia, John Dugard, you … Continue reading

30 November, 2006 · 2 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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