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Charles Sullivan: Why I am a “Terrorist”

ICH | 3 Sept 2006 According to the twisted logic recently espoused by Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, the failure to support illegal, immoral and unnecessary wars defines one as … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight

Excellent analysis  American support for Israel’s unwinnable aim of destroying Hizbullah only boosts its support in Lebanon and beyond 1 Sept 2006 | The Guardian In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Keith Olbermann: rare light on the American journalistic lansdcape

This video clip is an impressively thoughtful dissenting commentary on Rumsfeld, fascism, democracy and the lessons of history, refreshingly surprising for mainstream US television. Well worth a listen. Run time … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rosa Brooks: Criticise Israel? You’re an Anti-Semite!

Thank you for this common sense Rosa Brooks. How can we have a real discussion about Mideast peace if speaking honestly about Israel is out of bounds? 1 Sept 2006 … Continue reading

2 September, 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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