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Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 – 2006)

TruthDig :: 27 Sept 2006 :: With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iran’s cartoon contest on Shoah theme

The whole affair is a bit dated now, but here is the gallery of 228 cartoons … the good, the bad, the ugly, the harmless … here . Decide for … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

My pick of the moment: how to hack a US election

Extraordinary article in Rolling Stone by Robert F. Kennedy Jr

27 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The war machine and ‘conscientious ignorance’

I like Cindy’s use of Martin Luther King’s phrase “sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” *** Victims of the war machine By Cindy Sheehan :: 25 Sept 2006 :: ICH Our … Continue reading

26 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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