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Jewish Lebanese Expat: It’s Time for Jewish Dissenters to Challenge Israeli Policies by Henri Picciotto

San Jose Mercury News (California) Friday 11 Aug 2006 I grew up Jewish in Beirut. Although I left nearly 40 years ago, my memories of Lebanon — vibrant and multicultural … Continue reading

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“Fear! Fear!” shouted hawks and profiteers By Brian Bogart

ICH 11 Aug 2006 As soon as it came out that the apparent “new 9-11” threat had been thwarted with the help of Pakistani Intelligence Services (ISI), it also became … Continue reading

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How I found myself with the Islamic fascists By Jonathan Cook

ICH 11 Aug 2006 Information Clearing House EXCERPT Living on the margins of any society is an alienating experience that few who are rooted in the heartland of the consensus … Continue reading

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Who benefits from security hysteria? By Gwynne Dyer

The Age 12 August, 2006 ‘I USED to know when I was being deeply cynical and when I wasn’t,” said a friend who just made it into London before they … Continue reading

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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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