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Best wishes for a more peaceful and enlightened 2007

From David Baldinger ©: Cartoon above: Attribution in bottom left hand corner unclear; if you are or know the cartoonist, please contact me so I can credit this superb cartoon.

31 December, 2006 · 5 Comments

Iraq: Who Might Be Shooting at Both Sides?

OK, so the focus right now is on Saddam’s execution, the shallow justice meted out to one dictator while his one-time accomplices (nay, former puppeteers) in successive US administrations escape … Continue reading

30 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006

A most valuable compendium of important myth-busting facts by Mid East scholar Juan Cole, cutting a swathe through the continued blind or wilful distortion and dis/misinformation spun from AIPAC-pushed failed … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Pity the children: Innocents pay price of Gaza war

Dr. César Chelala reminds us of the human cost of war, and the terrible psychological scars and health costs borne by the most vulnerable. In this Gulf Times article (25 … Continue reading

27 December, 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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