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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

Iraq Study Group (ISG) Report

FULL TEXT available at various hosts: FT, BBC, USIP (.pdf, 160pp, opens in new window) Iraq Study Group report: Excerpts from BBC The Iraq Study Group, a US cross-party body … Continue reading

7 December, 2006 · 2 Comments

Meet Mohammed Omer, journalist, 22

Thanks to Servant at Ressentiment for bringing this information and Mohammed Omer tour to the fore. This remarkable young Gaza-born Palestinan journalist is currently completing a 15 city US speaking … Continue reading

6 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television is broadcasting Sunday Mass

  By Sophie McNeill | Information Clearing House BEIRUT: A truck laden with yellow Hezbollah flags drives past the Christian neighbourhood of Gemayzeh early Sunday morning in downtown Beirut. There’s … Continue reading

6 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Prison Nation

See also Michael Myser, Inside the $37 billion prison economy, Business 2.0./ CNN Money (6 Dec): “The nation’s 2 million inmates and their keepers are the ultimate captive market: a … Continue reading

5 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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