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Daily Archives: August 3rd, 2008

The Public Reading Rooms – Party invite and credit crunch project

03-Aug-08

“The true, greatly misunderstood collector is always anarchistic, destructive. For this is its dialectics: to combine with loyalty to an object, to individual items, to things sheltered in his care, a stubborn subversive protest against the typical, the classifiable” — Walter Benjamin
At the end of August the Porcupine Bookcellar in Kings Cross will close its [...]

All Is Not Quiet on the Eastern Front

03-Aug-08

Even with the Geneva gambit, the basic line of the US administration (with Obama in tow) is that armed intervention would be legally and morally justified, because Iran – even without actually building the bomb – is a new “ticking bomb” in the region. The more aggressive the forces pushing for war in Washington, the deeper their coordination with Israel.