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Category Archives: Saudi Arabia

Who’s To Blame For The Price Of Oil? Speculators, not Saudis

Revised with additions Two short news report video clips from Al Jazeera and the Real News Network cast some light on why the price of oil is so high at … Continue reading

28 June, 2008 · 7 Comments

Civilians pay the price: US arms sales to the ME

ADDENDUM: A great flash animation by Mark Fiore on the topic at hand: with thanks to the wonderful David Baldinger The Bush administration has just recently announced plans for a … Continue reading

3 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

Hariri Tribunal: sarcastic — and serious — takes

Cartoon by Leba-none First, sarcastic humour alert. You may know that the supremely representative UN Security Council has voted to go ahead with a spurious court to prosecute the murder … Continue reading

31 May, 2007 · 2 Comments

More media on Lebanon and Fatah al Islam

1. Press picks: Mike Whitney, Pack Up and Leave or Stay Home and Die: Bush’s New Middle East Eliza Ernshire, Inside Bedawi Camp: Refugees Forever Rami Zurayk, Hizbullah Move To … Continue reading

30 May, 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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