Peoples Geography — Reclaiming space

Creating people's geographies

Category Archives: Middle East

The Sinking Ship of U.S. Imperial Designs by Gilbert Achcar

EXCERPT ZNet 6 August 2006 Everyday that passes shows more of those who enthusiastically supported the Bush administration’s imperial drive in the Middle East leaving its sinking ship. There can … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bush, Islamic Fascism and the Christians of Jounieh By Juan Cole

Informed Comment/ Juan Cole 8 August 2006 Bush is on vacation, his favorite place to be during a major crisis. The August retreat is the only open admission he makes … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns By Robert Fisk

The Independent 8 August 2006  Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the manufacturers, Lebanese mothers … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel-Lebanon: a battle over modernity By George Schöpflin

Open Democracy 8 August 2006 The deep agenda of Israel‘s assault is to maintain the country’s monopoly of modernity in the middle east. But its ending is inexorable and with … Continue reading

9 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"


Categories