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‘Liberated’ Iraq: squalor and death amid ‘Bush’s palace’

Bush ‘palace’ shielded from Iraqi storm Paul McGeough, Baghdad August 26, 2006 THE plans are a state secret, so just where the Starbucks and Krispy Kreme stores will be is … Continue reading

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Virginia Tilley: Putting Words in Ahmadinejad’s Mouth

Is Iran’s President Really a Jew-hating, Holocaust-denying Islamo-fascist who has threatened to “wipe Israel off the map”? Counterpunch 28 Aug 2006 Johannesburg, South Africa — In this frightening mess in … Continue reading

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As American media obsesses over Jon-Benet, we mourn Abeer al-Janabi and her family

Where’s the outrage? U.S. troops have been accused of committing atrocities in Iraq. Americans should care. By William Neikirk Tribune senior correspondent 27 Aug 2006 Chicago Tribune Abeer Qassim al-Janabi … Continue reading

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If It Looks Like a Landmine, Smells Like a Landmine…

Scott Stedjan and Matt Schaaf | Foreign Policy In Focus | August 28, 2006 Editor: Miriam Pemberton Would a bomb by another name be any less explosive? Would a landmine … Continue reading

29 August, 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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