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View Article  Race, color and darkness
Blind poet Milton on light and blindness:

 Hail holy light  . . .

  . . . thee I revisit safe,
And feel thy sovereign vital Lamp; but thou
Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain
To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn;
So thick a drop serene hath quenched their Orbs,
Or dim suffusion veiled.

. . . Thus with the Year
Seasons return, but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of Even or Morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or ...   more »

View Article  Leading to Iraq: High crimes and misdemeanors. Late August, 2003.

101st in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As summer 2003 wears to an end, Iraq has been dominated and broken, but conquest is one thing; control is another.
August 19-31, 2003:

 

 

Aug 19, 2003 – A truck bomb in Baghdad kills the chief United Nations envoy to Iraq and at least 17 other people, wounding 100. Sergio Vieira de Mello, the U.N. special representative in Iraq, is killed by a blast from a demolitions-laden cement truck under the window of his hotel.

 

The bombing is but one in a series ...   more »