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A tale of two cities: Baghdad

It was the best of times (for war profiteers), it was the worst of times …. Inside the Green Zone, the caricatures of American consumptive popular culture are on display … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

A Tale of Two Cities II: Divided by the Wall in East Jerusalem

Terry Boulatta is an articulate guide and excellent Palestinian advocate. She offers a valuable human eyewitness and on-the-ground perspective on the injustices perpetrated against the indigenous Palestinans by the Israeli … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Consciousness-raising car mischief; climate change resets doomsday clock

UPDATED WITH DOOMSDAY CLOCK ANNOUNCEMENT (appended below) Serious fun combines with mischievous consciousness-raising with balloons on tail-pipes in a German green campaign. It comes heartily endorsed ;) And wherever possible: … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

Predatory Capitalism and Militarism in the USA

© Marcin Bondarowicz This piece by Stephen Lendman on the domestic costs of Empire packs quite a punch, carried by the strength of the facts presented by these social and … Continue reading

2 January, 2007 · 8 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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