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15th anniversary of AMIA bombing to be observed Friday, barring interference by IranAir

Walking down Avenida Figueroa Alcorta in Buenos Aires the other day, I came across a succession of posters advertising “la penetración iraní en América latina” and featuring Hugo Chávez and … Continue reading

14 July, 2009 · Leave a comment

Humanising the Hemisphere: John Pilger’s The War on Democracy

John Pilger‘s latest film, The War on Democracy (R/T 93 minutes) is an interesting and important excursion into the Latin American hemisphere and US foreign policy towards its southern neighbours. … Continue reading

24 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

News ‘n Views: Some Current Pickings

Some time-pressed recent links I found of interest rather than write-up(s) as I take some time out. Like many people, I have experimented with social bookmarking sites (Reddit, Newsvine, Clipmarks, … Continue reading

10 July, 2007 · 2 Comments

Tariq Ali on Creating an Axis of Hope: Latin America and the Middle East

Tariq Ali addressed a Sydney Ideas audience this week, with a lecture on lessons for the Middle East from Latin America, entitled Latin America and the Arab World: Resistance and … Continue reading

28 June, 2007 · 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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