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Peace and othering

This quote is from Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk. It is the preface in the Vietnamese version of his book “No man is an island”. Violence rests on the assumption … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Siege of Beirut and Hezbollah Backgrounder

Both these pieces are from Australia’s Dateline on SBS, well worth either watching the clips and/or reading the transcripts; links as follows. The Siege of Beirut (broadcast 23 Aug 2006) … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

War Corporatism: short video on PNAC

Nice graphics Run time 2:40

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Fisk: War is a failure of the human spirit

Ain’t that the truth … Nice short pithy run-time of 55 seconds – as excerpted from Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now

20 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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