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The Green Zone is where America happens

Posted by Vivek on July 18th, 2007

Its been a while. So time for something new.
A friend turned me on to an article in the NY Times detailing the post-Iraq life of Shaheen Khan, a Pakistani woman who is now paralyzed after a few months as a laundry worker in the Green Zone in Baghdad. KBR, formerly known as Kellogg, […]

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Israeli bloodbath; Peace in Bombay?

Posted by Vivek on July 18th, 2006

Israel continues the shelling of Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. For three soldiers. Shelling is a misnomer; let me restate that:
Israel continues its grossly disproportionate blood bath by an equally machismo war machine.
There is certainly no justification for this incursion. I’ve been wondering what has made Israel come to this, to nearly […]

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Gaza

Posted by Vivek on July 3rd, 2006

I wonder how Cpl Gilad Shalit feels now that the city of Gaza, Palestine is being shelled out and ground up for the latest bloodbath in the latest imperial Israeli operation.
Of course, he’s being held, probably against his will, somewhere in Palestine. But is anyone curious about what he’s thinking, what runs through the 19-year […]

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