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Guns and butter: Costs of war and empire

Update, March 2008: On the costs of the Iraq War and the Bush Administration, see also Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilmes’s new book excerpted in Vanity Fair: The … Continue reading

9 January, 2007 · 2 Comments

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

Israeli folly and More Olbermanns Please

Yep, coming after Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article last April, the Sunday Times (London) has reported that the Likudniks plan to strike Iran (subsequently and unsurprisingly denied) and we also … Continue reading

8 January, 2007 · 5 Comments

Israeli Laureate: Indeed there is Apartheid in Israel

Shulamit Aloni is an attorney, teacher, journalist, human rights activist and Israeli Prize laureate. Aloni also served as a Member of the Knesset continuously from 1974-1996, serving on the following … Continue reading

6 January, 2007 · 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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