There she goes again!

Naomi Klein tells it like it is, so straight and true. How to describe what the problem with this whole Iraqi "democracy" thing had been alluding me, and there she goes (even if it is in the sad crap that has become The Nation).

"The only idea that has ever stood up to kings, tyrants and mullahs in the Middle East is the promise of economic justice, brought about through nationalist and socialist policies of agrarian reform and state control over oil. But there is no room for such ideas in the Bush narrative, in which free people are only free to choose so-called free trade. That leaves secularists with little to offer but empty talk of "human rights"--a weedy weapon against the powerful swords of ethnic glory and eternal salvation."

Oh, as long as I am doing show and tell;

*via Sandhill Trek, comes Scratchings, interesting and funny.

* This person came by here and left a comment (always appreciated, yet so rare). They have a blog, I think it may be from Portugal, with many lovely images. They stumbled on me via Mandarin, who have kindly linked me up (as well as provided me with inspiration as to this plain ass blog).