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Cluster bombs in Lebanon: 20 000 cleared, 980 000 to go …

And the world will not forget that 90 percent of the cluster bomb shells were launched during the last 72 hours of the war — when an impending cessation of … Continue reading

26 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon’s Future: Bending Toward Hezbollah or Leaning to the West?

Interesting how this is framed, as an ‘either-or’ prospect with inferred limitations of mutual exclusivity. One of Lebanon’s strengths is surely that it is at the crossroads of cultures, inhering … Continue reading

23 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ted Turner serves it up to Dubya

Ted Turner says Iraq war among history’s “dumbest” By Daniel Trotta NEW YORK (Reuters) – The U.S. invasion of Iraq was among the “dumbest moves of all time” that ranks … Continue reading

22 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

US may ban sale of cluster bombs to Israel

By Patrick Cockburn in Nabatiyeh, south Lebanon Independent :: Published: 20 September 2006 The discovery of hundreds of US-made cluster bombs among the tens of thousands of unexploded munitions carpeting … Continue reading

21 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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