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Words of Wisdom

  • When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  • – Mark Twain
  • Whenever a particular freedom is put in question, freedom in general is put in question.
  • – Karl Marx
  • Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
  • – Aldous Huxley
  • I didn’t really say everything I said.
  • – Yogi Berra

Snippets

The shadow which haunts the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will come to realize that they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless, then the whole edifice which they support is in danger of collapse.
Against All Odds

Apologists for censorship invariably profess noble motives. They tell us that of course they are in favour of freedom of speech ‘in principle’ – then they go on to explain that ‘the greater good’ requires denying freedom of speech to people whose views they dislike.
Free speech for me – you shut up

If Hitchcock had made a film about neoliberal economics, the Chicago School of Economics would be the Bates Motel, Milton Friedman would be the demented proprietor, and Friedrich Hayek would be the dead mother in the attic.
Neoliberal House of Horrors

The Left has engaged in the futile pursuit of ‘moving the NDP to the left’ since 1933, achieving pretty much the same result as a dog chasing its tail.
Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP


Radical Digressions Comprehensive Subject Index

The Subject Index is designed to help you explore Radical Digressions by topic. There are individual pages for each topic, as well as an index page listing the most popular topics, and a separate comprehensive subject index listing more than 4,000 topics.
- Ulli Diemer


Palestine

  1. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
  2. Free Speech and Acceptable Truths
    Statement of the Alumni for Responsible Speech
  3. 'Free speech' - as long as it doesn't offend anyone
  4. Israel and the Arabs: the good guys don't always wear white hats
    Review of Israel: A Colonial-Settler State, by Maxime Rodinson
  5. Israel - Palestine: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
  6. Massacres and Morality
  7. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 4, 2023
    Gaza: Dehumanization and humanity
  8. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2014
    Killings by Police
  9. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
  10. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
    Tax Evasion
  11. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
    Resisting Injustice
  12. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 21, 2018
    What are we eating?
  13. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 10, 2018
    Massacres and Morality
  14. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 14, 2024
    Imperial Spectacle, Imperial Decline
  15. Questions about Israel's attack on Gaza
  16. Radical Digressions 4
  17. Radical Digressions 5
  18. The single-state solution
  19. Tactics of desperation: Using false accusations of 'anti-semitism' as a weapon to silence criticism of Israel's behaviour
  20. Why aren't we expelling Israel's diplomats?
    Letter to the Editor
  21. Yes to life in spite of everything: Children and Israel's war on Gaza 2006 - 2024
    Connexions Other Voices May 25, 2024
  22. Zatoun: Bridge-Builder at a Crucial Time
    What's a nice Jewish girl like me doing selling olive oil from Palestine?



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