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Mark Braverman: ‘I think we Jews need to look in the mirror … and stop looking backwards’

Mark Braverman draws upon his own journey as a US-raised Jew with a Jewish Palestinian family background and frankly — refreshingly! — talks about the connection between Jewish identity and … Continue reading

14 December, 2009 · Leave a comment

John Pilger – Sydney Peace Prize lecture

Last month Australian journalist John Pilger, recipient of the 2009 City of Sydney Peace Prize, delivered his prize address, The Great Australian Silence (transcript). Pilger focuses here on issues of … Continue reading

10 December, 2009 · Leave a comment

‘Israel: A Rogue State’ segment on CNN

As mild as this CNN report is, would it have appeared on CNN in the US rather than its International Edition? CNN’s Paula Newton here in a segment with Israeli … Continue reading

2 December, 2009 · 2 Comments

The danger of a single story – Chimamanda Adichie

An excellent talk by Chimamanda Adichie on the dangers of a single story on how we view the world … and ourselves. It also speaks to the power of storytelling and … Continue reading

29 November, 2009 · 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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