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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

Surprise, surprise: contrive terror, then roll back fundamental civil liberties

Every airport traveller ‘will be fingerprinted’ BY GERRI PEEV POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Airport biometric procedures to be extended after alleged terror plot Six out of ten believe government is not exaggerating … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Compare the reports

Toronto Star: Israel warns ‘war is not over’: Hezbollah won’t give up its arms, Lebanese troops begin move south by Tim Harper Washington Bureau 17 Aug 2006 Sydney Morning Herald: … Continue reading

17 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

War Is A Racket Updated

Read past the global conflict strategic overview, right into the extraordinary comments: Not so visible, however, is the impact beyond commodities — defense-related companies poised to make some serious profits … Continue reading

17 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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