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Arab Gulf countries race Hezbollah to rebuild Lebanon

The Associated Press | Published: September 6, 2006 in IHT DUBAI, United Arab Emirates As Lebanon digs out from the rubble of war, America’s Arab Gulf allies are pledging billions … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bombing Without Regrets: The US Has No Rules for Cluster Bombs

By Dave Lindorff | Counterpunch | 6 Sept 2006 Here’s a headline you won’t see in your local paper: “U.S. Accused of Using Cluster Weapons Against Civilians in Iraq and … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Empire of Oil: Capitalist Dispossession and the Scramble for Africa

by Michael Watts | September, 2006 | Monthly Review Michael Watts directs the Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley. Blood may be thicker than water, but oil is … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: “I Am A Leftist, But …”

“Left, But…” I ONCE saw a nice sketch in a political cabaret: on the stage several people were speaking in unconnected sentences, all of which ended with the word “but”. … Continue reading

7 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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