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Category Archives: Middle East

Washington and Tel Aviv neocons — no partners for peace

1. White House rules out one-on-one talks with Iran | Reuters Alert Net | 6 Dec 2006 The White House on Wednesday said it has ruled out one-on-one talks with … Continue reading

12 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

What if Baghdad Bob Was Right All along?

A great short piece by Tony Norman. I wonder what ‘Baghdad Bob’ is doing now and whether he’s OK. Is he part of the 1000+ (many estimates put it at … Continue reading

9 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Iraq Study Group (ISG) Report

FULL TEXT available at various hosts: FT, BBC, USIP (.pdf, 160pp, opens in new window) Iraq Study Group report: Excerpts from BBC The Iraq Study Group, a US cross-party body … Continue reading

7 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Why Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television is broadcasting Sunday Mass

  By Sophie McNeill | Information Clearing House BEIRUT: A truck laden with yellow Hezbollah flags drives past the Christian neighbourhood of Gemayzeh early Sunday morning in downtown Beirut. There’s … Continue reading

6 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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