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Danny Glover: Race and the Obama Administration

Actor-activist Danny Glover takes a principled stand on calling for the Obama administration to display genuine leadership on the second Durban racism conference. In 2001 I traveled to Durban, South … Continue reading

12 April, 2009 · Leave a comment

George Galloway in California

An excellent address by the RESPECT MP in Santa Clara a few days ago. H/t Lefti Part One (10m) Continued – Galloway’s Challenge to US activists:

10 April, 2009 · Leave a comment

Securing Academics For Empire

James Petras in the Palestine Chronicle (please support this excellent publication if and as you are able) on an emerging group sometimes dubbed “academics in uniform”: The Pentagon’s military strategists … Continue reading

2 April, 2009 · Leave a comment

Israel's Flag Is Not Mine

Like King Abdullah al-Hussein of Jordan’s American address in 1947, this telling letter by Alfred M. Lilienthal published in 1949 reveals a far greater openness of debate and expresses serious … Continue reading

29 March, 2009 · 5 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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