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Blowback From a Bad War By Robert C. Koehler

    Tribune Media Services/ After Downing Street Thursday 03 August 2006    And where is it that the Vice Lords meet the Aryan Nation? Why, in Baghdad, of course – where, in … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Shi’a crescent: myth or reality? By Abigail Fielding-Smith

Open Democracy 28 July 2006 With tensions growing in the middle east, leaders and policymakers have started warning of an increasingly powerful Shi’a crescent, bolstered by Iran. Abigail Fielding-Smith uncovers … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Baghdad burning By Nermeen Al-Mufti

Al-Ahram Weekly | 3-9 Aug 2006   With no immediate prospect of a US withdrawal from Iraq, Nermeen Al-Mufti examines the human cost of the ongoing sectarian violence

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Unrealpolitik: Why Are These Hawks So Naïve? by RJ Eskow

I salute you RJ … Highly recommended article Huffington Post Every antiwar movement of the last forty years has heard the same thing: “You people are too idealistic. Peace and … Continue reading

2 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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