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There was a reference to Jonestown in the Harvey Milk documentary I watched today, and I realized that while I had a vague notion that Jonestown's keywords were "cult" and "mass suicide", I actually didn't know any of the particulars. I'd been around for 20 months when all of this went down at the end of 1978, and that pre-dates my first memories ( Read more... )

Emily (tenshiemi) dropped me a line last minute about a special one-night showing of the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad at the Harvard Exit Theatre tonight ( Read more... )

It snowed in Baghdad, Iraq this morning.
No violence was reported.
Today Baghdad was Madinat-As-Salam again for awhile: City of Peace.


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Because, at the end of the day, it's not us and them... only us. Maybe I'm just being sentimental today, but reading this brought tears to my eyes, and made me think of this Taoist adage:

I am good to those who are good and not good, and therefore am good.

Japan and India are continuing to develop their relationship ( Read more... )

Babylon 5's Nightwatch is taking over Bangladesh. "Emergency" government, curfews, television censorship (not uncommon there from what I learned while watching the Int'l Sesame Street documentary when they were working on a production for Bangladesh), the mobile network has been shut down ( Read more... )

The BBC has been working with Mukhtar Mai (Mukhtaran Bibi) to publish a blog about women's issues in Pakistan. Mukhtar Mai is the woman who earned international recognition when she fought back within the legal system after being gang raped at the command of a tribal council in punishment for something her 12-year-old brother did, instead of ( Read more... )

1. Thank goodness for the Internet - we can still communicate with each other across international borders despite this latest amplification of fear. Hi, how is everyone in Finland, Iraq, Greece, Iran, the UK, The Netherlands, Colombia, etc ( Read more... )