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| | Mondays: Sunday Night -- 10.19.03 -- Tariq Ali in discussion with Anthony Arnove & 16Beaver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Opening Bush in Babylon with this question, Tariq Ali, one of the most articulate, informed, and passionate English-speaking commentators on the Middle East today, provides in his new book, a thorough, timely and much-needed response. |
 | | Bush in Babylon’s conclusion, examining the occupation of Iraq in the context of empires old and new, argues that neither European-style empire-building of the nineteenth century, nor the examples of US dominance of the Philippines in the twentieth, nor even the Japanese variety of success, is relevant to the current situation. |
 | | Bush in Babylon is as well a magnificent cultural history; a heartfelt homage to the great poets of Iraq and the Arab world whose influence remained strong throughout their long periods of exile, and who are united in poetic resistance to the latest catastrophe. |
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