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Monthly Archives: July, 2007

In Somalia, It’s The Blood Money, Stupid! by Amina Mire

Another valuable and urgent piece on Somalia with thanks to Amina Mire for sending it. She writes about the underexamined role of China’s scramble for Africa’s natural resources, in addition … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · 18 Comments

Uprooted: a documentary by Donia Mili

An excellent documentary and personal journey by Donia Mili. Its long-ish but most worthwhile. H/T: Picked up by the always excellent Tom Feeley at ICH; with thanks to Khobbeizeh for … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · Leave a comment

Development III: Foreign Aid in pictures

Grainy captions clarified Cartoonists, where applicable, are: Wiley, unknown, Hinze and R. Cobb Foreign Aid: When you take money from the poor people in a rich country and give it … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · Leave a comment

Dixon and Falk on the Israel problem

Bruce Dixon, Israeli Apartheid, The Black Commentator (lead story) Imagine, if you will, a modern apartheid state with first, second and eleventh class citizens, all required to carry identification specifying … Continue reading

8 July, 2007 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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