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The Exodus: 1.6m Iraqis have fled their country since the war

By Patrick Cockburn The Independent | 23 October 2006 Iraq is in flight. Everywhere inside and outside the country, Iraqis who once lived in their own houses cower for safety … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert Fisk: We’ve all been veiled from the truth

The wretched fiction of Iraq’s ‘success’ is Blair’s attempt to make us wear the veil The Independent | 21 October 2006 Yes, the film O Jerusalem – loosely based on … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Egypt, Under Stress, Sees U.S. as Pain and Remedy

By Michael Slackman | NYT | Published: October 22, 2006CAIRO, Oct. 20 — Faced with twin political threats — a rising Islamic movement at home and diminished influence throughout the … Continue reading

22 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Can You Tell a Sunni From a Shiite?

By JEFF STEIN | NYT Op-Ed Contributor | Published: October 17, 2006 Image: Alex Nabaum FOR the past several months, I’ve been wrapping up lengthy interviews with Washington counterterrorism officials … Continue reading

20 October, 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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