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Monthly Archives: February, 2007

The American proxy war in Gaza

Ali Abunimah’s op-ed properly situates the factional fighting in the OPT in the context of proxy wars and not as a result of wholly internal factors. Politics is never just … Continue reading

7 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Rumi-nations III

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk … Continue reading

6 February, 2007 · 2 Comments

Bushmert hastening doomsday clock

© Khalil Bendib P R E S S P I C K S John Pilger, Iran: The War Begins, New Statesman, 3 February 2007: As opposition grows in America to … Continue reading

5 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Abadi El Johar on the oud

The oud is a Mediteranean-Middle East instrument used in traditional music. Run-time: 3:20

5 February, 2007 · 2 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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