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The next United Nations leader: a time for transparency

By David Mepham | Open Democracy | 30 August 2006 The appointment of Kofi Annan’s successor is imminent. The incumbent has done well, the candidates are serious – but the … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Vale Naguib Mahfouz

Nobel prize winning novelist who brought Arabic fiction to the western world Denys Johnson-Davies | The Guardian | Thursday August 31, 2006 The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who has died … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

War with Iran? Military Movements throughout Eurasia

The ‘Heartland’ & Immense Military Movements in the Eurasian Land Mass “Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; Who rules the Heartland commands the world-island; Who rules the world-island controls … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

What’s Up, Doc: Interview with Robert Greenwald

Political filmmaker Robert Greenwald makes low-budget movies using innovative distribution. Will he change hearts and minds? By JEFFREY RESSNER | Time Director Robert Greenwald has produced more than 50 TV … Continue reading

28 August, 2006 · 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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