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Was timing of Saddam’s verdict rigged for Bush?

Saddam’s time is up according to his pro-US administration would-be executioners … I am against the death penalty generally and this does not sit well with me particularly given the … Continue reading

6 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Azmi Bishara on a ministry of strategic threats

Azmi Bishara is always a read I enjoy. In this week’s Al-Ahram Bishara writes that a Ministry of Strategic Threats comes right out of the theatre of the absurd that … Continue reading

5 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kissinger’s role in recognising Israel demand

As reported by Ha’aretz, Henry Kissinger has been invited by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting their strategic goals … Continue reading

5 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel mounts air strikes in Gaza

Eleven civilians, including a 12-year-old girl (Isra Nasser), are now among the dead. 27 Palestinians have been killed in IDF Gaza raids over the weekend in Operation ‘Autumn Clouds’. This … Continue reading

4 November, 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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