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Israel arms sales peak despite Lebanon war fallout

Well, there you have it. Notwithstanding that arms deals may take many months and so started before the assault on Lebanon, that’s no excuse — isn’t the brutal occupation of … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who wants a civil war in Iraq?

My friend the Fanonite’s latest entry takes an important look at Iraq’s realities on the ground – check it out. Linking to a Channel 4 documentary, he draws upon Fisk … Continue reading

19 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Channel surfing on Middle East TV

Its always a curious, interesting experience watching foreign language TV without subtitles. You can learn and discern a lot culturally, even without fully understanding the dialogue. At my parent’s place … Continue reading

15 December, 2006 · 15 Comments

Why Hezbollah’s Al-Manar Television is broadcasting Sunday Mass

  By Sophie McNeill | Information Clearing House BEIRUT: A truck laden with yellow Hezbollah flags drives past the Christian neighbourhood of Gemayzeh early Sunday morning in downtown Beirut. There’s … Continue reading

6 December, 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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