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1) Juan Cole’s analysis of Saudi’s transition from Fahd to Abdullah: http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/08/05/fahd/ 2) Iraq’s Manuscript Collections Report: I draw your attention to the following report, published today on the web site of the MELA Committee on Iraqi Libraries: Indispensable yet … Continue reading →

1) A Republican-affiliated PR firm is now going to convince the US public that Kirkuk is indeed Kurdish (actually, it’s historically mixed between Kurds, Turkmen, Arabs, and other smaller groups and never had a majority population) and that the Kurds … Continue reading →

1) Legal basis of Palestinian claims: “Re-claiming Palestine: The Legal Basis for Rights of Return and Restitution”Summary of Lecture by Susan Akram, Souad Dajani, and Bret ThieleFor the Record No. 230 / 2 August 2005 Palestinians constitute one of the … Continue reading →

1) Here is an announcement for an Iraqi resistance conference, which is interesting if only because a number of people appear to be insufficiently afraid of US retaliation to hold such a conference in public. This is another sign that … Continue reading →

Happy Hiroshima week, for those who fail to remember. Also, big day for high-profile obits: King Fahd, John Garang, and Wim Duisenberg. 1) This is pretty incendiary stuff, although it’s being hushed. There WERE CIA staff who believed that Iraq’s … Continue reading →

1) Here’s an outspoken piece about New Orleans Muslims, New Orleans race, and racism. It’s on a blog that I’m finding is really worth checking out for intra-Muslim discourse: Thursday, July 21, 2005Racial Tension in the American Ummaby Kelly Crosby … Continue reading →

Back from the beach, and will try to get this going some more again. 1) Friedman laid this egg of an op-ed last week. If there were to be a list of “excuse makers,” he’d be one of the top … Continue reading →

This is probably the last posting for a week or so — off to the beach: 1) This is an essay on Karl Rove’s creation of enemies, by one of this list’s readers. US VS. THEMby Vincent Czyz At a … Continue reading →

1) Just another article explaining what Bush & Co hath wrought in Iraq, this time in cultural patrimony terms: http://hnn.us/articles/13002.html Why History Will Judge Us Harshly for Our Violation’sof Iraq’s PatrimonyBy Chalmers Johnson Mr. Johnson, the author of Blowback and … Continue reading →

1) Another useful op-ed on London. The main point is that “your security is only assured if ours is. If our women and children are killed, then your women and children are killed…”: http://www.guardian.co.uk/alqaida/story/0,12469,1529875,00.html Not hate, vengeanceMundher al-AdhamiSaturday July 16, … Continue reading →