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Kilroy was here!

If you don’t already know of this ubiquitous, sometimes bug-eyed, mischievous doodle first spread by American servicemen–as I didn’t til last month–the legend is an interesting one. I learned about … Continue reading

13 December, 2006 · 11 Comments

Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh

The opening anecdote makes me wonder whether the Israel and Lebanon right-wing “elites” are not all that different at a sociological level … of course the fascist-inspired Phalange were Israel-allied … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Richard N. Haass: The New Middle East

A CFR articulation of the new ‘neo-neo’* ‘soft-power’ reliant vision for the Middle East? *in IR terms, denotes neorealist (sometimes neocon)/ neoliberal The New Middle East By Richard N. Haass … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

The Perils of Globeerization

Interesting look at some of the global history and political economy of beer by Chris O’Brien | Foreign Policy in Focus | 24 October, 2006 The world’s cup runneth over … Continue reading

26 October, 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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