Dec 07 2010

We’re Number One!

      No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. — Adam Smith Poverty is an abstraction, even for the poor. But the symptoms of collective impoverishment are all…  [more]

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Dec 01 2010

A conversation…

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srWgISIs6to[/tube]…  [more]

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Dec 01 2010

A country of crazies

By Leonard Pitts Jr. lpitts@MiamiHerald.com … We are gathered here today to mourn the loss of America’s mind. It was last seen last month in Oklahoma. There, voters gave emphatic approval to a measure outlawing the use of Sharia law…  [more]

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Nov 29 2010

Burhan Zahrai

C100 Valley-Search The steed of this Valley is patience; without patience the wayfarer on this journey will reach nowhere and attain, no goal…  Baha’u’llah (Persian) C101Valley-Love …The steed of this Valley is pain; and if there be no pain this …  [more]

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Nov 28 2010

Find the cost…

…of freedom, buried in the ground Mother earth will swallow you Lay your body down Stephen Stills, 1970 Robert Fisk: Oceans of blood and profits for the mongers of war Saturday, 27 November 2010 … Since there are now three…  [more]

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Nov 22 2010

Vive la Révolution!

Friday, March 30, 1906 … Three days ago a neighbor brought the celebrated Russian revolutionist, Schaykoffsky, to call upon me.  He is grizzled, and shows age — as to exteriors — but he has a Vesuvius, inside, which is a…  [more]

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Nov 20 2010

A place of ghosts

Lebanon, my Lebanon: A stirring new photography book sparks Robert Fisk’s memories From ancient groves where he once dodged bullets to peaceful mountain ranges, from embattled politicians to wise-cracking locals, Robert Fisk, the Independent’s Middle East correspondent, finds his memories …  [more]

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