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Somalia: The Return of the Warlords

UPDATE: Thanks to Amina for pointing to this link: Nicola Nasser, Somalia: The Latest Misadventure, Counterpunch, 3 Jan 2006. This is a timely essay on the urgent situation in the … Continue reading

3 January, 2007 · 3 Comments

The case for Iran

A reasoned and worthwhile article by Iran’s UN Ambassador that appeared in the LA Times. The Likudniks continue to contrive the case for sanctions and war with their lunatic worldview … Continue reading

1 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

In Somalia, a reckless U.S. proxy war

*** Also see From Bad to Worse, Guardian leader article (27 Dec) – with thanks to Amina for pointing it out. See also Amina Mire’s Somalia: The Return of the … Continue reading

27 December, 2006 · 3 Comments

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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