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God save the queen The fascist regime They made you a moron Potential H-bomb God save the queen She ain’t no human being There is no future In England’s dreaming Don’t be told what you want Don’t be...
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”According to an apocryphal story, Henry Kissinger/André Malraux/an unidentified journalist once asked Chinese premier Zhou Enlai about the significance of the French Revolution. Zhou reportedly...
View ArticlePINOCCHIO,PROFITS & PEE WEE: ''another NICE mess''
At the G20 Summit in Toronto last week, the major accomplishment was the agreement on the ”Toronto Consensus”, which proclaimed in light of the Tsunami of fiscal stimulus hosed into a river of...
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”I’d been prepped for understanding by my parents and grandparents, who constantly spoke of the regressive, racially pathological south. They took me to South Carolina almost every summer throughout my...
View Articleit can’t happen here
Its called the Wheel of Conscience. Designed by Daniel Libeskind, it sits at Pier 21 at the port of Halifax and commemorates a number of issues. Much like war memorials in their role in actually...
View Articlerothschild & buber: real life is encounters with the 133 year bond
its an incongruous combination that two men so patently different should somehow be connected inextricably to the Jewish people and a jewish homeland. On the one hand, Baron Edmond de Rothschild feared...
View Articlethe daily grind of small acts
Reconciliation and retribution. The ability to forgive. How should a victim behave when faced with their torturer? And what are the points on intersection between vengeance and justice?… With World...
View Articleconversations with dharma: monkey business
Mahatma Gandhi dreamed that one day India would become a Ram-rajya. The Ramayan teaches Indians to perform their dharma. Originally, it was a 50,000 verse epic poem, seen to originate with Valmiki,the...
View Articlegandhi and ascetism: spiritual weapons
…Fasting was a weapon- non-violent, of course- to control primarily oneself and one’s followers, and only secondarily one’s opponents. Gandhi, unlike Lenin, aimed first at truth and God. Only when...
View Articleamerican revolutionary: kid gloves and “likes”
…Are our rebels and would-be revolutionaries merely play acting as they embrace the consumer cycle, media spotlight and wine, sex and song ethos?… Will an ascetic revolutionary leader, such as a Lenin,...
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