Reporter: Mr. Harrison, with all that’s going on in the world today, why did you decide to focus on this (Bangladesh)?”
George Harrison: “Because a friend asked me to help.”
from a press conference for the Concert for Bangladesh
this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
we honor courage in all its forms
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, My Left Wing, and TexasKos.
image and poem below the fold
A Shi’ite Mehdi army member grieves during the funeral of two colleagues in Baghdad’s Shi’ite Sadr city May 15, 2006. A funeral was held for two members of the Mehdi army who were killed after an ambush by insurgents, police said.
REUTERS/Kareem Raheem
An undated Ministry of Defence handout photograph released on May 15, 2006 shows Private Joseva Lewaicei aged 25 years of the 2nd Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment who was killed by a roadside bomb in Basra, southern Iraq on May 13, 2006. The bomb, which killed two soldiers and seriously wounded a third, exploded late on Saturday night as a convoy of four armoured land rovers was on patrol just north of the city of Basra, British military spokesman Squadron Leader Al Green said.
REUTERS/MOD/Ho
from Eye Against Eye
by Forrest Gander
As if nothing were wrong egrets dip-feed in near shore channels
the human genome reveals chromosomes from parasites
annexed by our DNA long ago
mongrels to the core and tourists
with cameras take the front pews
the enemy blows himself up at Passover dinner
the enemy trembles in a cave starving
the enemy lets go a daisy cutter
a million cubic feet of mud slides down the slope
toward a single bungalow in Laguna Beach
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