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Matt Simmons on peak oil

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3 February, 2007 · Leave a comment

Iran, Israel, The Big Lie and The Real Threat

A clearly argued and straightforward piece by Frank Scott below. On the news front, the Turkish Daily News ominously reports that ‘US poised to attack,’ claims Bulgarian agency, while in … Continue reading

1 February, 2007 · 9 Comments

The political economy of escalation

John Damien posits what he sees as the likely material motive to the madness in BushCo’s planned escalation. While there may well be a intra-elite split in the US administration … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

BushCo and Big Oil Manipulating the Oil Reserve for Polls and Profit?

Eye-opening article by Thomas I. Palley: Manipulating The Oil Reserve in TomPaine.com (January 26, 2007). His bio: Thomas Palley runs the Economics for Democratic and Open Societies Project. He is … Continue reading

28 January, 2007 · 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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