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Category Archives: US Foreign Policy

Colonialist Cuisine. Warning: Does Not Freeze Well

… and is liable to cause mass food poisoning and diplomatic indigestion. Khalil Bendib masterfully captures the utter fraud about the precondition of freezing illegal Israeli Jew-only outposts, an internationally … Continue reading

10 September, 2009 · Leave a comment

Illegal settlements, land grabs and US tax dollars

Despite US calls for it to be halted, Israel has said that illegal settlements will continue in the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem. Palestinians fear that the Obama administration’s … Continue reading

11 June, 2009 · Leave a comment

Hold your applause

Chris Hedges is another one of the clear skeptics after Obama’s Cairo address; his sober assessment is a reminder of how grim things look from the pointy, receiving end of … Continue reading

9 June, 2009 · 1 Comment

Responses to Obama's Speech: An Attitudinal National and Ethnic Divide?

Links added In scanning the progressive press, I’d like to add an observation to Idrees’ survey of the online reaction to Obama’s speech about an interesting pattern that seems to … Continue reading

5 June, 2009 · 22 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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