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Robert Fisk: A French colonial legacy of despair

Fisk gets stuck into France–and all colonial divide and conquer botch jobs: “And thus we divide the “other”, while assiduously denying the “other” in ourself. This is what the French … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Whodunnit? Whoever it was, Syria unlikely

From Mark Levine, Huffington Post (23 November 2006): So why would Syria risk upsetting this favorable balance by killing a Maronite politician when Hezbollah had already bolted the government and … Continue reading

24 November, 2006 · 4 Comments

Chris Hedges: Bring Down That Wall

Truthdig.com | 20 Nov 2006 The last hope of halting Israel’s steady ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and calculated destruction of the Palestinian economy is … Continue reading

24 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

How well do you know your Middle East geography?

Can’t See the Forest has posted a great Middle East and North Africa “pin the tag on the country” interactive link. Check it out and have a go with testing … Continue reading

20 November, 2006 · 3 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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