Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Time for the neocons to admit that the Iraq war was wrong from the start

by Matthew Parris | The Times | 21 October 2006 Excerpt: “The former hawks of press and politics now scramble for the status of visionaries let down by functionaries. This … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Art of resistance: how Palestinians are reaching out across the globe creatively

by Ahdaf Soueif | The Guardian | Saturday October 21, 2006 Last Saturday at the Festival of Palestinian Literature in Manchester, Salma Khadra Jayyusi walked slowly to a microphone in … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

How many members of the Bush administration does it take to change a light bulb ?

Apparently this is somewhat dated (in Bush administration terms) and has probably done many a round amongst dear dissident American friends but its only just landed as far afield as … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

Recent microcredit critiques

… as expected, they’re coming in. Its always worth remembering that the corporate, neoliberal model is not the only type of microcredit available – the corporate types, both public and … Continue reading

23 October, 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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