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    World Beat

    By John Feffer
    February 9, 2010

    For some years now, the radio has been announcing a yellow alert. Will we fight over space in the bomb shelter of The Twilight Zone or work together in a spirit of rugged collectivism to avert the looming disasters?

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    Commentary

    By Jae-Jung Suh
    February 9, 2010

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    Commentary

    By Bonnie Bricker and Adil E. Shamoo
    February 5, 2010

    The Obama administration's policy toward Iraq largely continues the policies of the Bush years.

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Poem: 'The Genesis of Torture'

By E. Ethelbert Miller. Edited by Melissa Tuckey, June 15, 2009

In the beginning
we will all wear black hoods

Our faces will be hidden from history
Someone will tie a cruel footnote to our genitals

It might be our neighbor
disguised as God

E. Ethelbert Miller is an award-winning poet, director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, board chairperson of the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor to Foreign Policy In Focus. His interviews are a regular feature of Fiesta.
Recommended Citation:

E. Ethelbert Miller, "Poem: 'The Genesis of Torture'" (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, June 15, 2009)

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