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Caught out: IDF used human shields; Lebanon war planned in advance

A few Quick Links to news over the past few days that Israel’s IDF has used human shields (outlawed in both international and Israeli law) and Olmert’s admission that the … Continue reading

12 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Beyond Quagmire: Rolling Stone Panel on Iraq

The Rolling Stone has put together a panel of foreign policy, academic and military professionals, both current and retired. Panellists include Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Clarke, Nir Rosen, Gen. Tony McPeak … Continue reading

10 March, 2007 · Leave a comment

Fisk on Putting Hatred On A Map

A very good Fisk piece on sectarianism and how the epistemological violence of imposed imperial cartographic division ultimately results in empirical, on the ground, violence. Put more simply, it is … Continue reading

4 March, 2007 · 5 Comments

Scott Ritter and Seymour Hersh on Iran

The long and the short, all most worthwhile. Former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh draw on their expertise and experience to offer important … Continue reading

2 March, 2007 · 12 Comments

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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