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Start Talking to Hezbollah – New York Times Op-Ed By Lakhdar Brahimi

NY Times 18 August, 2006 What a waste that it took more than 30 days to adopt a United Nations Security Council resolution for a cease-fire in Lebanon. Thirty days … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Villagers Cheer as Lebanese Army Marches Into the South by Robert F Worth

NY Times 19 Aug 2006   BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. 18 — Villagers danced in the streets and threw rice on Friday as the Lebanese Army’s soldiers reached the southern border … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

After Lebanon, What’s Left? by Issandr El Amrani

TomPaine.com :: 17 August 2006 Issandr El Amrani is a Moroccan-American independent journalist based in Cairo. His work about Middle East culture and politics regularly appears in American and British … Continue reading

19 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

This is what US Neocon ‘liberation’ results in: All-night queues as Baghdad runs out of petrol

By Oliver Poole in Baghdad :: Telegraph.co.uk (Filed: 18/08/2006) Iraq has the third largest oil reserves in the world but yesterday drivers were forming mile-long queues outside petrol stations, knowing … Continue reading

19 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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