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Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil

Even as Iraq verges on splintering into a sectarian civil war, four big oil companies are on the verge of locking up its massive, profitable reserves, known to everyone in … Continue reading

20 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

A Cheerful, Semi-Apocalyptic Look at Things to Come

A Cheerful, Semi-Apocalyptic Look at Things to Come: A summary of Michael Ventura’s Musings by Anne R. Allen | Hopedance.org In these blood-soaked, declining years of the American Empire, much … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cuba oil prospects cloud US horizon

It seems the silly longstanding US embargo on Cuba has come and bit the administration back on the bum … By Laura Smith-Spark BBC News :: 11 September 2006 The … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa

by Michael Watts | September, 2006 | Monthly Review Michael Watts directs the Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is … Continue reading

7 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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