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POPSDover Beach The Sea of Faith Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled. But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
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POPSThe Life of the Mind As scientists break open the black box of the mind, and begin to unravel the neural processes that define our behavior, it’s becoming clear that who we are—and what we decide to do—is ultimately shaped by the quirks and constraints of these three pounds of flesh inside the head.
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POPSCongo, Bongo and Dead Souls Never fails to sell newspapers, the propensity of the shadow to project itself onto suitable objects of externalisation. You don't need to be a Jungian to appreciate the conceptual difference between psychological pathology as a cause for the erotic satisfaction of souls thin as words on paper in the terminal death rattle of slaughter and hatred as the final attempt to feel, and the nature of war as lived through fully human experience. It's the former Fromm addresses in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, the latter by those involved.
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POPSGlorying in Slaughter: the righteous malignancy
<<<So at 11:30 on Saturday morning, according to both the Jerusalem Post and Ha'aretz, as well as the New York Times, 50 fighter jets and attack helicopters demolished some 40 to 50 sites in just about three minutes, maybe five. Message: do not fuck with the Jews. "Do not fuck with the Jews." And what of the several hundred Palestinian dead -- including numerous children -- and many hundreds more seriously wounded? Israeli intelligence reported 225 people dead, mostly Hamas military leaders with some functionaries, besides, and perhaps 400 wounded. The Palestinians announced 300 dead, probably as a reflex in order to begin their whining about disproportionate Israeli acts of war. And 600 wounded. Objections to the Israeli attack are just "whining." Those are the words of a psychopath. And what to do now? I am up to my gullet with this reflex criticism of Israel as going beyond proportionality in its responses to war waged against its population with the..
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POPS"We have no words left" <<<In Europe and the Middle East, the gap between leaders and led could not be greater when it comes to Israel. Official complicity and support for Israel contrast with popular outrage at war crimes carried out against occupied people and refugees with impunity. With governments and international institutions failing to do their jobs, the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions National Committee - representing hundreds of organisations - has renewed its call on international civil society to intensify its support for the sanctions campaign modelled on the successful anti-apartheid movement. Now is the time to channel our raw emotions into a long-term effort to make sure we do not wake up to "another Gaza" ever again.>>> • Ali Abunimah is co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse
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POPSBeautiful Brain The online exhibition featured here is called 'Beautiful Mind'. An audacious leap! Great images though.
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POPSThe Hub: a "Youtube" for human rights carries stories and footgae from people all over the world that may get taken down by mainstream sites like youtube, facebook etc because they are 'controversial' or antiestablisjmeny (i.e. antigovernment_
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