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Uri Avnery: Lunch in Damascus

Avnery is always a good read Once while, traveling in a taxi, I had an argument with the driver–a profession associated in Israel with extreme right-wing views. I tried in … Continue reading

6 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

The March to War: Naval build-up in the Persian Gulf and the Eastern Mediterranean

By Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya :: Global Research.ca :: 1 October 2006 The probability of another war in the Middle East is high. Only time will tell if the horrors of … Continue reading

5 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: Muhammad’s Sword

Avnery does an admirable job of contributing to the much needed dialogue of civilisations wth this historical corrective, demolishing the myth that Islam sanctions the spread of the faith by … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · 1 Comment

Ancient Phoenicia under threat

Al-Ahram | 14 – 20 September 2006 Issue No. 812 Nevine El-Aref looks at the UNESCO’s efforts to rescue Lebanon’s historical sites following the Israeli-Hizbullah ceasefire Click to view caption … Continue reading

17 September, 2006 · 1 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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