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Blood And Oil: How the West will profit from Iraq’s most precious commodity

  “By 2010 we will need [a further] 50 million barrels a day. The Middle East, with two-thirds of the oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize … Continue reading

9 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Juan Cole: Top Ten Myths About Iraq 2006

A most valuable compendium of important myth-busting facts by Mid East scholar Juan Cole, cutting a swathe through the continued blind or wilful distortion and dis/misinformation spun from AIPAC-pushed failed … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Mark Bruzonsky on the Middle East

We in the blogging world are greatly indebted to Servant for his munificent efforts in helping coordinate the availability of many of these Bruzonsky video materials. This one, recorded in … Continue reading

20 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Earth. Best before: the Industrial Revolution

Cartoon by Stan Eales, from his wonderful First Book of Eco-Humour As the Chinese symbol for crisis also denotes opportunity, there’s a side of me that looks forward to what … Continue reading

2 November, 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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