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Professor Tariq Ramadan barred from teaching in US

See also Tariq Ramadan’s own account in the Washington Post, Why I’m Banned In the USA  Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Bush Administration Says Prominent Muslim Scholar Can’t Teach in the … Continue reading

29 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Waging war costs US $2 billion … per week

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn Peter Walker Thursday September 28, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn (£1.07bn) a week as … Continue reading

29 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 – 2006)

TruthDig :: 27 Sept 2006 :: With a smug stroke of his pen, President Bush is set to wipe out a safeguard against illegal imprisonment that has endured as a … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Most Iraqis Favour Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show

Leaders’ Views Out of Step With Public SEE UNIV MARYLAND POLL REPORT HERE (.pdf, 22pp. opens in new window) By Amit R. Paley Washington Post Staff Writer 27 September 2006 … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

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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