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Neocons growling on Iran

Sandy Huffaker, caglecartoons.com Recent Press Picks * Seymour Hersch, The Redirection, New Yorker (25 Feb 2007): To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, … Continue reading

26 February, 2007 · 4 Comments

Poll charts attitudes in the Middle East

Jim Lobe reports on an interesting recent multicountry public opinion poll of the Middle East in IPS (8 Feb). There are many significant and heartening findings, including that majorities in … Continue reading

10 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Juan Cole: The danger of Bush’s anti-Iran fatwa

Juan Cole delivers an incisive and informed piece on the idiocy and implications of Bush’s dangerous and delusional new directive that US troops capture or kill Iranian “agents” in Iraq. … Continue reading

30 January, 2007 · 1 Comment

George Galloway strikes back

Good to see you back, George. From his marvelous testimony in front of the US Senate which put me on a natural high for a week, to his numerous inspiring … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · 4 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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