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Category Archives: Middle East

Middle East Studies McCarthyism

… Noughties style, around the I-P issue and academics’ positions on it in the teaching of Middle Eastern studies across American campuses. A transcript follows of a current affairs program, … Continue reading

10 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rest of world cheers with US, but shocked at Beit Hanoun

First Muslim in Congress, first female House Speaker, Democrats rule the roost in both the House of Reps and Senate, Rummy resigns … whatever challenges and hurdles that lie ahead … Continue reading

9 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert Fisk: This was a guilty verdict on America as well

Independent | 06 November 2006 So America’s one-time ally has been sentenced to death for war crimes he committed when he was Washington’s best friend in the Arab world. America … Continue reading

7 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Transport policy begets foreign policy

The wonderful Andy Singer:

6 November, 2006 · 2 Comments

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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