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Poll charts attitudes in the Middle East

Jim Lobe reports on an interesting recent multicountry public opinion poll of the Middle East in IPS (8 Feb). There are many significant and heartening findings, including that majorities in … Continue reading

10 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Justin Raimondo: Lebanon, again — the Israelis want another go

(Gus Leonisky) A sobering analysis by Justin Raimondo about the Israeli establishment’s arch belligerency towards its northern neighbour (and the rest of the region). Its sobering because in light of … Continue reading

10 February, 2007 · 1 Comment

Molly Ivins’ last column

This was Molly Ivins’ last column. May this shining light rest in peace. Thanks to Dean for forwarding the graphic by Sherffius from Cagle Cartoons. In a less rousing, more … Continue reading

8 February, 2007 · 3 Comments

The American proxy war in Gaza

Ali Abunimah’s op-ed properly situates the factional fighting in the OPT in the context of proxy wars and not as a result of wholly internal factors. Politics is never just … Continue reading

7 February, 2007 · 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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