Lefty Blogs
williampfaff ++ ++
Russian News ++
seaton-newslinks. USA expat in Europe ++
bilegrip Asu spleen ++
us-rockstroh a rant, not a blog ++
aboutmyplanet eco ++
sfgate ++
crookedtimber ++
onthecommons ++
sjlendman ++
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abutamam freeiraq ++
airamericaradio +
amygdalagf +
angryarab ++
annezook +
antiwar ++
norwegianity
terrorism-news
blogspot
ourtomorrow
politickybitch
welcome-to-pottersville
aviraqi
billmon ++ whiskeyB
consortiumnews ++
dahrjamailiraq
dailywarnews ++
drforbush +
english +
fallujahinpictures
freespeechradio
halcyondays ++
healingiraq
hereticalideas ++
icasualties
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boxspinning boxes

jamaicaobserver newspaper
jameswolcott +
lefarkins +
liberalgirlnextdoor ++
lonehighlander Libya, not lefty
mahablog +++ solid
maruthecrankpot +
indymedia melbourne
messopotamian +7Apr06
monkey ++
motherjones ++
fisk
nocapital +
norightturn +NZ
peakoil ++
pilger +
politicalhumor +
raedinthemiddle
rafahtoday Feb05?
rense w= wacko conspiracies
rigorousintuition x
hegemon ++
ruckus ++
rudepundit ++
satiricalpolitical +
scaramoucheblog ++
secretsinbaghdad ++15Ap06
Energring
aliveinbaghdad ++
riverbendblog ++
sideshow +++
signs-of-the-times +++
slashdot ++techy
talkleft ++
thinkprogress ++
thismodernworld +++
uncapitalist ++
velorution ++ bicycles
org ++Brazil peasants
warandpiece +
warfare.ru +russia military
greenpeace
allhatnocattle
alternet ++
americanpolitics
antiwar
gbruno ++YT
axisoflogic ++
blackcommentator
bobharris +
bradblog +
buckfush +funnies
buggery +
buzzflash ++
changeforamerica
countercurrents
counterpunch +++
crisispapers
crooksandliars ++?
csmonitor
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davidcorn
democracynow
democracyuprising
dissidentvoice
earthfirstjournal
earthstation5
empirenotes
foodfirst
fpif
fromthewilderness
geocities
granta
grist ??
gristmagazine
guerrillanews
gulf
hizbollah
huffingtonpost ++
informationclearinghouse
infoshop +
inthesetimes x
iranmania x
ivaw
jihadunspun
juancole ++
kuro5hin ++ notlefty
kurtnimmo ++
lrb ++ Iraqi?
mahablog
lewrockwell ++
marklynas climate change
mnftiu get your war on comics
motherjones
nilemedia
nybooks
occupationwatch
oriononline
palestine
prisonplanet
rall ++ Ted Rall cartonist
ratical
redpepper
rense
robert
rollingstone
scoop
selvesandothers ++
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socialistworker
spiked
tblog
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tompaine ++ mag
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truthout +
boondocks ++
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worldwatch ++ $ required
zaman + Turkish news
youcantmakeitup + ?
youngfox ????????????
bareknucklepolitics videos?
popdrain videos??
discovery videos??
cs videos??
aegisIraq video??
mariyaguchi video??
iwilltryit video..
baghdadtreasure
ahram cairo newspaper
felbers
thepartyline
jfaughnan 28/04/2006 10:25AM
shrillblog +
thinkprogress +
marchforjustice + pictures
messopotamian + Iraqi not so radical, but scared (also see IraqTheModel which was a USA front, but is now also scared)
scaramoucheblog +
counterpunch
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malakandsky ++ stolid?
republicoft + black gay parent??
dailykos ++
rawstory ++
democraticunderground ++
atrios ++
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politicalwire +
sisterstalk black lesbian?
culturekitchen ++
alternet
wonkette +++
billstclair +
freefreedomtoldhere ++ pipe bomb

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almuajaha defunct
whynot defunct
winstonsmith defunct
samadams dormant
mquinn02 defunct
iraqblogcount ++14Apr06 suspended
iraqicomments most recent: jan2005
iraqidoctor most recent: Aug2005
georgemustgo + moved?
vialls ++Dormant (joe is dead)
warblogging Defunct
hammeroftruth quiescant?
mediastorm quiescant? +
bushwhackedusa defunct
hamasonline defunct
4Jul06

02 June 2003

To Canberra for Bonnard exhibition. Strangely minor works... some say that PB is a minor artist.. not I.... few of the 100 shown would feature in a short book of Pierre's works. I loved the show. Prefer PB to Picasso any day of the week. Hate Canberra, a modernist nightmare, hateful to any pedestrian. Lovely works from galleries one will never visit (Philadelphia & Nagata).
Nagata poster (art on the web is now small & mean, a few years ago 70K images were common, now tight commerce has shrunk them)
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Last week, on 2 days,we had a flock of 40 or more small cormorants in the bay just in front of our office. Never seen flocks like that before. Maybe they were juveniles, hope they all make it through the winter.

2Jun03
Iraq, the beat goes on
June 1..rpg & assault rifles ...attacked an American convoy ..on the busy square in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque
"This is just the beginning!" shouted a woman
..followed ..the first mortar attack in Baghdad since the end of the war
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G8 protests dont feature in Aus media. The NYT reports looting of a Lacoste store... seems the Swiss protesters havnt quite got the anarchist ethos yet...

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Mohamed Bakri's banned "Jenin,Jenin" made it to Aus TV last night, 14 months after the event.
Amazing pictures of an 11 year old girl saying "We will live like rocks and die on our feet like lions, I want all the Israelis to memorise this"

Pictures of Palestinians roped together by the IDF as human shields... the closest image that came to mind was the Warsaw ghetto, but the Nazis somehow lacked the evil inventiveness displayed by the Zionists.

SBS screened some interviews with IDF soldiers, i guess to "balance" - it seems that the IDF lost 24, not 13, and the Jews on screen seemed quite fearful about the prospect of being called up for another massacre.

JeninMassacre


At least living in Jenin leaves no doubt as to who is the enemy and what is the task.

Living in Aus I have a great weariness. The citizens here seem concerned only with their house valuations, and Aus predominance in minor sports (there is oddly no Aus national skill at all in Football - they call it soccer and practice other codes). The fastest man in the world this year is an Australian aborigine, sub 10 in the 100m. A happy stat in a country where the aboriginal health statistics are mostly sub-third world level.

At least when I lived in the USA I felt the country had some creativeness and excitement. Since that time the main income for the USA has become from copyright, ie from movies & games. Used to be from Jet planes, but seems its now safer to play with your joystick at home.

One thing about the USA that was great was the volunteer ethos. Everyone was expected & encouraged to do volunteer work in the community. In SF,within a day of offering, I was coaching teenagers in math. I recall telling one young black man that you dont need to learn long division, just use a calculator. He, however, insisted that I teach him... "..so you start with guessing the divisor..." an interesting moment....

In Aus to offer to volunteer is to be regarded as weird, unless its at a sport event. I once rang up a volunteer agency,to offer to teach migrants english, and got treated somewhat like a criminal. The fact that I didnt own a car meant I was scorned, and "of course" as a male I couldnt possibly be allowed to teach women or children....
Sadly Aus lacks a volunteer ethos.

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