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The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela?

The Palestinians: Who’s their Mandela? Review, The Economist, 25 November 2006 and rep at ei The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood By Rashid Khalidi, Beacon; … Continue reading

27 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Murdoch announces latest takeover to world’s press

Clipped this wry commentary on mainstream media monopoly some years back, it therefore predates the alternative media and weblog explosion of which we are a part :)

27 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Woman refrigerates phone; Sister Site idea

Yes, yours truly, an absentminded friendly Aquarian woman refrigerated her phone today, along with a shopping bag that contained vegetables after I’d come back from shopping. I whooped with laughter … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · 13 Comments

Robert Fisk: A French colonial legacy of despair

Fisk gets stuck into France–and all colonial divide and conquer botch jobs: “And thus we divide the “other”, while assiduously denying the “other” in ourself. This is what the French … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · 3 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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