Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Some context on Beslan

“At 5am on 14 April 2002, an armoured vehicle moved slowly down Soviet
Street. A young brown-haired man, covered in blood, his hands and feet
bound, stood onboard. The vehicle stopped and the man was pushed off and
brought over to a nearby chain-link fence. The car took off and there was a
loud bang. The force of the explosion, caused either by a grenade or
dynamite, sent the man’s head flying into the neighbouring street, called
Lenin’s Commandments. ‘It was difficult to photograph the moment, though I
have grown somewhat accustomed to this,’ says a petite greying Chechen
woman, who has spent years documenting what Russia calls its ‘anti-terrorism
campaign’.”

To read the complete article, click here:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,820261,00.html

Another article:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1298703,00.html

Thanks to Information Clearing House (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/) for the articles.

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-mickey z.

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Sunday, September 05, 2004

Leonard Cohen says:

Being that I’ll be on Canadian radio tomorrow evening, here’s a little something from one of my favorite North-of-the-Border dwellers:

“Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows that the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich
That’s how it goes
Everybody knows”

“Everybody Knows,” Leonard Cohen


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