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click photo for larger image photo by Bob Parker © 2008 Quote by Italo Calvino from Invisible Cities, p145 Thanks to the ACLU and the Freedom of Information Act, recent confirmations have come to light that top Bush administration aides, actively overseen by the Vice-President and fully sanctioned by the President, drafted the legal opinions […]

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Language and power

April 10, 2008 — 2 Comments

© Bob Parker 2008 (Quote on propaganda is adapted from The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Prose, Volume III, 1949-1955, edited by Edward Mendelson, pub. Princeton University Press 1/08 as quoted in Harpers Magazine, December 2007 p. 21). (Bottom photo: Veterans for Peace Arlington Northwest memorial cemetery, Renton WA 2005 . The American death […]

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