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Robert Fisk | American and Muslim: six million people in search of an identity

3 September 2006| The Independent Seattle businessmen, students, Miami housewives… Well, what did I expect, asks Robert Fisk at the Chicago Muslim convention A guy with brown eyes and dark … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Patricia Crone: What do we actually know about Mohammed?

Interesting article  The early years of Islam compose an exciting field of current scholarship that is yielding fresh insights and understanding, says Patricia Crone, professor of Islamic history at the … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Caracas: 5000 houses can fit into a single golf course

Venezuela to seize golf courses Guardian | Wednesday 30 August 2006 Venezuela’s golf courses are seen as havens for the rich The mayor of Venezuela’s capital Caracas says he plans … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

US Accused of Bid to Oust Chavez With Secret Funds

By Duncan Campbell | Guardian UK | Wednesday 30 August 2006 Millions of dollars given to opposition, claim critics. Venezuelan groups’ details hidden from list.     The US government has been … Continue reading

31 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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