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Juan Cole: Bush Turns to Fear-Mongering Creation of “Islamic” Bogeyman

Informed Comment | Wed 6 Sept 2006 The Bush administration obviously wishes it were waging war on Nazi Germany. Even the old Soviet Union would be fine, these nostalgic Cold … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon: Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery

IRIN, 5 September 2006 RAS AL-AIN/ TYRE – Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

UK: Rooftop protest against arms dealers

Press Release, Smash EDO, 2 September 2006 posted at ei 23 August 2006 – Protesters are currently occupying the roof of an arms manufacturer who supply weapons to the Israeli … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rebuilding Lebanon

Democracy Now | Sept 5 2006 Three weeks after the ceasefire that ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, residents in Lebanon are struggling to rebuild. Thousands of families … Continue reading

6 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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