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Students killed in Baghdad university bombing

I’m affected by a lot of news from Iraq, but the news of the bombing outside Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad that killed seventy students, mostly female, and injured more than … Continue reading

18 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

Israel’s ‘invisible hand’ still controls Gaza

Israel’s ‘invisible hand’ still controls Gaza, says report David Sharrock in Gaza | Times Online | January 15, 2007 Israel continues to control Gaza, 16 months after it pulled out … Continue reading

15 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

The terror weasel word

© David Baldinger Thanks to Servant for providing this snippet from a Robert Fisk lecture.  It was one Fisk gave in Canada but is almost word for word the same … Continue reading

13 January, 2007 · 20 Comments

Ilan Pappe: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank By Ilan Pappe | Electronic Intifada | 11 Jan 2007 A general view of Har Homa settlement, built on … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · 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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