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John Pilger: No News Is Slow News

Z Net 15 September 2006 and Pilger.com When I began working as a journalist, there was something called “slow news”. We would refer to “slow news days” when “nothing happened” … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘We were wrong over Lebanon’

Blair hit by Lebanon backlash as minister admits ceasefire ‘mistake’ The war lasted 34 days. It left 1,393 people dead. Another 5,350 injured. And more than 1,150,000 displaced, of whom … Continue reading

15 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hezbollah guilty of war crimes, Amnesty says

ABC Australia Last Update: Friday, September 15, 2006. 1:00am (AEST)  *Also see Patrick Cockburn’s Independent article Hizbollah rocket attacks on Israelis ‘war crimes’* Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah committed war crimes … Continue reading

15 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Eqbal Ahmad interview with Sheikh Nasrallah

The late Eqbal Ahmad interviewed Sheikh Nasrallah in 1998. I happened upon this interview in Al-Ahram, worth a read. See also Hezbollah Ahead of Lebanese Government in Reconstruction.

14 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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