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Brazil: A Right to food

by Frances Moore Lappé | Friday, August 25, 2006 | The Nation “If someone can’t afford to buy food, they’re still a citizen and we’re still responsible to them,” city … Continue reading

27 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lessons for today: UK Tory admits got it wrong on apartheid

Aaah, so many parallels with those some of our government “leaders” call “terrorists” today, and with trumpeted states practising apartheid … · Tory leader dumps key Thatcher legacy · Ex-PM’s … Continue reading

27 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Alienation can be a humane response to globalisation

Home-grown terrorism has been bred from social dislocation as well as the destruction of alternative ideologies of hope Jeremy Seabrook | Friday August 25, 2006 | The Guardian Does Ruth … Continue reading

27 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel on the Slide by Alexander Cockburn

Excerpt: Israel has been kidnapping Lebanese for years, a hefty chunk of the 10,000 or so rotting in horrifying Israeli prisons, like the secret Facility 1391 in central Israel, worse … Continue reading

27 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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