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The Siege of Beirut and Hezbollah Backgrounder

Both these pieces are from Australia’s Dateline on SBS, well worth either watching the clips and/or reading the transcripts; links as follows. The Siege of Beirut (broadcast 23 Aug 2006) … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

McGreevy: Beautiful Beirut

Juan Cole Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: Beautiful Beirut Is a moment of crisis a time to understand a place? Or only a time to romanticize or demonize because our … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Activists Hang Banners Calling for an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel

Jewish Conscience Photos and info on the Philly banner drop, NYC demo FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, August 22 Contact: [email protected] Philadelphia Jews Stand Against Israel’s War Crimes Activists Hang Banners … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon’s Month-Old Oil Slick Sinks

By LAUREN FRAYER | The Associated Press | Washington PostTuesday, August 22, 2006; 7:11 PM BEIRUT, Lebanon — An oil slick caused by Israeli bombing has begun sinking to the … Continue reading

24 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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