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Iran... or Persia?

by Peter Lamborn Wilson

[ august 04 ]

"Inside the 'fat' Iranian, a 'thin' dervish often struggles for self-expression. Dervishism allows a way to cock a snook at all the dreary conformities, class suffocation, overly formal manners and philistine consensus aesthetics."

Kerry's hypocrisy on Vietnam War

by Robert Jensen

[ august 04 ]

"In a hyper-patriotic country, it can be difficult to tell the truth about the barbarism of one's own leaders. But in 1971, John Kerry was among the Vietnam War veterans who did that..."

Blurring distinctions

by Noel Rooney

[ august 04 ]

The twin problems of militarising NGOs and media fudge

Jews and Druze

by Joe Palmer

[ july 04 ]

"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosophers as equally false; and by the magistrate as equally useful." Gibbon's analysis of Rome still has relevance.

Fahrenheit 9/11 is a stupid white movie

by Robert Jensen

[ july 04 ]

What Michael Moore misses about the empire.

Dobeliou and Caliban

by Joe Palmer

[ july 04 ]

A lesson in Victorian literature...

Meditations on the navel ban

by Maria Golia

[ july 04 ]

"The navel's veiling and unveiling has long been a barometer of authoritarian mores in Egypt, where belly-dancing celebrates earthy femininity, and earns practitioners equal parts adoration and prurient scorn."

The address for protest is Labor's headquarters

by Tanya Reinhart

[ june 04 ]

"Only if Mazuz the prosecutor can convince Mazuz the judge that there is a decisive basis for indicting Sharon, will Mazuz the Attorney General decide that there are grounds to put him on trial"

A failing grade for college censors

by David Wallis

[ june 04 ]

"Journalists-in-training have learned to fall in line and stop questioning authority. Judging by the prevalence of 'have a nice day' journalism, it is a lesson that has apparently been taken to heart by many in the mainstream media."

Evil and its discontents: a 21st Century bestiary

by Stephen Chan

[ june 04 ]

"We have all become Manichean - concerned with a huge confrontation between two empires, two faiths, two ideologies, each with the same vision of each other."