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Timothy Garton Ash: Zorba the Bush

Bush has created a comprehensive catastrophe across the Middle East In every vital area, from Afghanistan to Egypt, his policies have made the situation worse than it was before Timothy … Continue reading

16 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kucinich remark an island of sanity in a sea of inanity

Lawrence of Cyberia has highlighted this timely quote from US Congressional Representative Dennis Kucinich. It saddened and angered me anew at what BushCo and their AIPAC-tilted policies are responsible for … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Olmert’s Nuclear Gaffe

So Ehud Olmert, the Israeli PM, has finally let slip that Israel has nukes, and in so doing has ended decades of the orwellian titled Israeli “doctrine of nuclear ambiguity” … Continue reading

14 December, 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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