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Mistreating even the elderly in America’s Gulag

Lawyer: Guantanamo’s oldest detainee returned to Afghanistan Last Update: 8/29/2006 5:01:09 AMSAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) – An Afghan man in his 70s who used a walker to get around … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

AIPAC, the Religious Right and American foreign policy

By Rodrigue Tremblay “Most citizens are unaware of the startling fact that for years our U.S. Middle East policy has not been crafted by seasoned experts who are committed to … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Liberated’ Iraq: squalor and death amid ‘Bush’s palace’

Bush ‘palace’ shielded from Iraqi storm Paul McGeough, Baghdad August 26, 2006 THE plans are a state secret, so just where the Starbucks and Krispy Kreme stores will be is … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Virginia Tilley: Putting Words in Ahmadinejad’s Mouth

Is Iran’s President Really a Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying Islamo-fascist who has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”? Counterpunch 28 Aug 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa — In this frightening mess in … Continue reading

29 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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