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Beijing holds whip hand over slowing US

By Jephraim P Gundzik :: Asia Times :: 4 October 2006 Relations between Beijing and Washington have become increasingly strained. China is strengthening its ties with Iran, Syria, Venezuela and … Continue reading

4 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Is Israel a partner for peace?

With so much focus and naysaying in the prevailing US-Israeli-Western discourse on whether this or that Palestinan or Arab leader is a “partner for peace”, it is refreshing to see … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

More settler encroachments under the cover of war

One can see why the Israeli state is so war-happy, nay bellicose – it maintains critical political support for more land theft. The way it is framed even in this … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Circus tricks: who will succeed Kofi Annan?

The machinations at the UN over who will be Kofi Annan’s successor show exactly why the security council needs reform – and why it won’t happen Essay by Paul Kennedy … Continue reading

16 September, 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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