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Inside Tehran

An interesting and multi-dimensional look at the vibrant city life of Tehran, metropolitan population: 12 million. (Note to Homeyra: taking travel notes! May see you along Valiasr Street one day!) … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 21 Comments

A tale of two cities: Baghdad

It was the best of times (for war profiteers), it was the worst of times …. Inside the Green Zone, the caricatures of American consumptive popular culture are on display … Continue reading

20 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Uri Avnery: “If Arafat were Alive…”

EXCERPT IF ONE wants to see real joy, one has only to look at the faces of Israeli correspondents who appear every evening on television to report on events in … Continue reading

27 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Howard Zinn on keeping hope and perspective

Monte Asbury features a lovely post that excerpts the conclusion of Howard Zinn’s 1994 book You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times. These … Continue reading

24 January, 2007 · 1 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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