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Category Archives: Violence

Tibetathon at the 2008 Beijing Olympics

For a good nuanced read that puts the recent flare-up in perspective, see Pankaj Mishra’s At war with the utopia of modernity (Guardian CiF). An interesting essay can also be … Continue reading

24 March, 2008 · 2 Comments

There are alternatives, Norman

ADDED: Thoughtful comments from friends and response from Norman, with thanks I have a bone to pick with Norman Finkelstein, whose scholarship and stances in the past I have expressly … Continue reading

19 February, 2008 · 29 Comments

This is what a police state looks like

Police with video cameras at rallies … overt in-your-face surveillance … this is not what a democracy looks like. (Thanks Dave)

18 February, 2008 · 9 Comments

“We must take a neighborhood in Gaza and wipe it off the map”

Quotables from the Israeli government’s current (c)harm offensive While you may have read about the first, Israeli Minister Sheetrit’s revealing outburst was by no means the only recent one. These … Continue reading

12 February, 2008 · 8 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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