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The cook’s report: I watched Beirut as it burned

The Independent :: 30 September 2006 :: by Anthony Bourdain Anthony Bourdain is famed for his dramatic culinary adventures. But when he set off to Lebanon, little did he know … Continue reading

30 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Professor Tariq Ramadan barred from teaching in US

See also Tariq Ramadan’s own account in the Washington Post, Why I’m Banned In the USA  Thursday, September 28th, 2006 Bush Administration Says Prominent Muslim Scholar Can’t Teach in the … Continue reading

29 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Waging war costs US $2 billion … per week

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn Peter Walker Thursday September 28, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn (£1.07bn) a week as … Continue reading

29 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Norman Solomon: Media tall tales for the next war

The Jordan Times :: 28 September 2006 The Sept. 25 edition of Time magazine in the United States illustrates how the US news media are gearing up for a military … Continue reading

28 September, 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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