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This is what US Neocon ‘liberation’ results in: All-night queues as Baghdad runs out of petrol

By Oliver Poole in Baghdad :: Telegraph.co.uk (Filed: 18/08/2006) Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world but yesterday drivers were forming mile-long queues outside petrol stations, knowing … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Globalization Isn’t Working by Mark LeVine

Boston Globe Thusaday 17 Aug 2006 This war was never supposed to happen. In the era of globalization, no two countries that possess McDonald’s are supposed to go to war. … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Historic Byblos polluted by war By Hugh Sykes

BBC | Thur 17 August 2006   The conflict in Lebanon has caused devastating damage to the local economy and environment of the ancient port of Byblos. The oil slick … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

In Africa, Women Stride Into Power By Laurie Goering

Chicago Tribune | Wednesday 16 August 2006Kigali, Rwanda – Sweden and Norway once claimed the world’s highest percentage of female lawmakers. Now that distinction belongs to an African nation: Rwanda. … Continue reading

18 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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