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Azmi Bishara on a ministry of strategic threats

Azmi Bishara is always a read I enjoy. In this week’s Al-Ahram Bishara writes that a Ministry of Strategic Threats comes right out of the theatre of the absurd that … Continue reading

5 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kissinger’s role in recognising Israel demand

As reported by Ha’aretz, Henry Kissinger has been invited by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting their strategic goals … Continue reading

5 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Richard N. Haass: The New Middle East

A CFR articulation of the new ‘neo-neo’* ‘soft-power’ reliant vision for the Middle East? *in IR terms, denotes neorealist (sometimes neocon)/ neoliberal The New Middle East By Richard N. Haass … Continue reading

4 November, 2006 · 1 Comment

Robert Fisk: Mystery of Israel’s secret uranium bomb

See also High radiation levels said to be found after Israel’s Lebanon bombing (news item) Alarm over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon Independent | 28 October 2006 Did … Continue reading

29 October, 2006 · 1 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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