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Our Cities Are Killing Us By Julie Robotham and Sherrill Nixon

Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 16 August 2006 Think of it as a vast experiment in human biology. Put millions of people in a limited space, then crank a few levers: … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Settlers on Israel’s eastern frontier By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde Diplomatique August 2006 The settlements of the West Bank built in the past decade, privately financed and publicly backed, have attracted nonpolitical Jews, both the well-off looking for … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Beirut: a city in war By Paul Cochrane

Open Democracy 3 Aug 2006 Three weeks into the war with Israel, the capital of Lebanon is a city damaged, deserted and in limbo. Paul Cochrane reports. Modern “greater Beirut” … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

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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