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Category Archives: Empire, War and Terror

The Exodus: 1.6m Iraqis have fled their country since the war

By Patrick Cockburn The Independent | 23 October 2006 Iraq is in flight. Everywhere inside and outside the country, Iraqis who once lived in their own houses cower for safety … Continue reading

23 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

US Republicans launch terror ad

:roll: See also the Boston Globe and Kurt Nimmo BBC | Last Updated: Saturday, 21 October 2006 The US Republican Party has launched a controversial terror-linked TV advertisement to bolster … Continue reading

22 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Former Dep. Mayor of Jerusalem tells it like it is

By Meron Benvenisti | Ha’aretz | 20 October 2006 Approval of Moshe Safdie’s plan for expanding Jerusalem westward has been deferred once more, making it the latest – but not … Continue reading

22 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Egypt, Under Stress, Sees U.S. as Pain and Remedy

By Michael Slackman | NYT | Published: October 22, 2006CAIRO, Oct. 20 — Faced with twin political threats — a rising Islamic movement at home and diminished influence throughout the … Continue reading

22 October, 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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