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Israel and the US are still focused on the wrong issues

Every major political issue – Lebanon, Iraq, radicalism – links back to the festering Israeli-Palestinian conflict Rami G Khouri | Monday August 21, 2006 | The Guardian We have a … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Upbeat and full of promise: The New Arab World

Contrast with this view here by Alain Gresh that pessimistically foresees greater crisis and calamity in the region: ‘The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bush-Coke-Pepsi Triumvirate Under Fire in India

by Haider Rizvi | Monday, August 21, 2006 | OneWorld.net The Bush administration is facing fierce criticism across India for backing the Coca Cola and Pepsi Cola companies in their … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iraqi Peace Activist Forced to Change T-Shirt Bearing Arabic Script Before Boarding Plane at JFK

Democracy Now :: Monday, August 21st, 2006 On a trip back from the Middle East, Iraqi blogger and activist Raed Jarrar was not allowed to board a flight at JFK … Continue reading

21 August, 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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