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Monthly Archives: September, 2006

James Bovard: Killing in the Name of Democracy

Lew Rockwell.com President George W. Bush perpetually invokes the goal of spreading democracy to sanctify his foreign policy. Unfortunately, he is only the latest in a string of presidents who … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel, the traumatised bully

A perceptive (and one of the few sane) comments in the reader feedback section on Ha’aretz online. Ha’aretz is the better Israeli daily, though it still attracts the racist, intolerant … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

George Galloway: Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East

The defeat of the regional superpower could yet open the way to a wider settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict 31 August 2006 The Guardian As the smoke clears from the … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ex-Mossad director already talking of second war round

Efraim Halevy An article in the Canadian Jewish News features an interview with ex-Mossad Director Efraim Halevy (pictured). By turns encouraging as well as dismaying, the article entitled ‘Israel Can’t … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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