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Creating people's geographies

Colbert is a comic genius

Funny satirical sketch by Colbert lambasting Bush and Co and sending up Republican rhetoric – right in front of them. Remarkable Colbert has courage in spades and is a genius … Continue reading

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Voices across the divide: Rami Khouri

Journalists have a greater responsibility today than ever before. They can provide the vital combination of accuracy, rationality, balance and historical context that is needed to offset politicians Sunday August … Continue reading

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Where the shepherds tend guns by night By Peter Beaumont

In this border village, many civilians flee the Israeli bombardment. But others, compelled by a mix of religion and patriotism, have joined the fight Peter Beaumont in Kfar Kila | … Continue reading

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Is This A Just War?: Michael Walzer’s Tortured Ethics By Mark LeVine

Tikkun | Mark LeVine is a Contributing Editor to Tikkun. He teaches in the Department of History at UC Irvine, and is the author of Why They Don’t Hate Us … Continue reading

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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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