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Category Archives: Africa

Amid dire world conflict, more expressions of friendship and goodwill

Don’t know about you in this Christeidhanukwanzaamas, but I’m exhausted. Seems that just when you get a break after a busy year, the body says to itself “OK, you can … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 8 Comments

In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war

*** Also see From Bad to Worse, Guardian leader article (27 Dec) – with thanks to Amina for pointing it out. See also Amina Mire’s Somalia: The Return of the … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

African tsunami

This cartoon won first prize in the United Nations Correspondent’s Association Ranan Lurie Political Cartoon Award 2006. Second and third prize award cartoons as well as those cited-for-excellence can all … Continue reading

18 December, 2006 · 5 Comments

How well do you know your Middle East geography?

Can’t See the Forest has posted a great Middle East and North Africa “pin the tag on the country” interactive link. Check it out and have a go with testing … Continue reading

20 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

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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