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Jonathan Cook: Prime suspects

Guardian: Comment is Free | November 24, 2006 Commentators and columnists seem agreed: Pierre Gemayel’s assassination must have been the handiwork of Syria. President Bush thinks so too. Case, apparently, … Continue reading

28 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert Fisk: A French colonial legacy of despair

Fisk gets stuck into France–and all colonial divide and conquer botch jobs: “And thus we divide the “other”, while assiduously denying the “other” in ourself. This is what the French … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · 3 Comments

Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh

The opening anecdote makes me wonder whether the Israel and Lebanon right-wing “elites” are not all that different at a sociological level … of course the fascist-inspired Phalange were Israel-allied … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Kurt Nimmo on ‘neo-neo’ struggle in Lebanon

See also his other entries for a decidely less than benign view of US foreign policy towards Lebanon: Hezbollah vs the CIA Cedar Revolution and Bolton Busy Framing Syria for … Continue reading

25 November, 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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