POEM: In the old days a poet once said (Ko Un)
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Ko Un (born 1933 in Gunsan, in Japanese-occupied Korea [now South Korea]) returned to the secular world in 1962 after a decade of Buddhist monastic life. -- He was active in South Korea's democracy movement in the 1970s and spent time in prison. -- He has published 135 volumes and has been short-listed twice for the Nobel Prize in Literature. -- The poem posted below is from Flowers of a Moment, a collection of translations of 185 poems that was published in 2006.[1] ...
VIDEO: Francis Boyle's Bertrand Russell lecture on campaign to impeach Bush
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The 18th annual Bertrand Russell lecture was delivered on Jan. 10, 2007, at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Iraq, by Prof. Francis A. Boyle, who has also been involved here in Pierce County with the Fort Lewis court-martial of Lt. Ehren Watada. -- The title of Boyle's lecture, which can be watched on the video below, is entitled "The U.S. National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush Jr."[1] -- With the Bush administration, Boyle says, "What the world has watched is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the international legal order by a group of men and women who are thoroughly Straussian and Machiavellian in their perception of international relations and in their conduct of both foreign affairs and American domestic policy." -- Boyle maintains that the Bush administration itself is "an ongoing criminal conspiracy." ...
COMMENTARY: The real Kurt Vonnegut, uncensored
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Harvey Wasserman's reminiscences of Kurt Vonnegut include extensive quotations from Vonnegut's last paid lecture, at Ohio State in 2006.[1] ...