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Hope, cynicism shadows U.N. peacekeepers

By TODD PITMAN, Associated Press Writer | Sun Aug 27 | Yahoo News MARWAHEEN, Lebanon – It was the fourth day of the war, and an Israeli army loudspeaker boomed … Continue reading

28 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon’s fishermen crippled by wartime oil spill

Shame Israel Shame II by Jocelyne Zablit Sun Aug 27, 6:39 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) Israel’s war against Hezbollah has brought disaster to Lebanon’s fishermen, stricken by a massive oil … Continue reading

28 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Language and Politics

Wrong War, Wrong Word by Katha Pollitt | The Nation posted August 24, 2006 (September 11, 2006 issue) If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush … Continue reading

27 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanese cope with humour

So, Three Guerrillas Walk Into a Bar . . . By Nora Boustany | Washington Post Foreign Service Tuesday, August 15, 2006; Page C01 BEIRUT — With a bit of … Continue reading

27 August, 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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