Month: December 2006

I spent most of yesterday offline watching football and reading an old book a friend of mine loaned me: The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA, by Thomas Powers (1979). It was ironic that Pinochet died the same...

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With Fouad Siniora’s cabinet hiding in the Grand Serail behind acres of razor wire and thousands of troops – a veritable “green zone” in the heart of Beirut – the largely Shia Muslim opposition,...

Could a movement be afoot to replace Iraqi leader Nouri Al-Maliki with someone else?? Several sources suggest it could be happening in the near future. http://www.huffingtonpost.com...

Hanukah begins this coming Saturday, so I thought I’d post a poem I learned in the 1970’s, the author unnamed.  I found it posted here here, here and here among other places, words varying a bit, sometimes with...