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Monthly Archives: December, 2006

In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war

*** Also see From Bad to Worse, Guardian leader article (27 Dec) – with thanks to Amina for pointing it out. See also Amina Mire’s Somalia: The Return of the … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

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

Inhabited island disappears off the face of the map: climate change casualty

The Independent’s environment editor Geoffrey Lean reports that climate change has claimed its first wholesale victim, the previously inhabited (population: 10, 000) island of Lohachara near India. Disappearing world: Global … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 10 Comments

Azmi Bishara on the Holocaust

Azmi Bishara, writing in Al Ahram 21-27 Dec 2006 Issue 825

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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