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Plain genocide By Erica Silverman

Al Ahram 10-16 August 2006 Seven weeks into Israel’s offensive on Gaza finds the civilian population desperate, isolated, and defenceless before Israeli massacres, Erica Silverman reports Click to view caption … Continue reading

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Bush’s axis of failure By Sidney Blumenthal

Open Democracy 9 August 2006 The neo-conservative dogma that has ruined Iraq is now being applied to the Lebanon war. The result could be a regional conflagration with untold consequences, … Continue reading

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Six Lessons from the London Airline Bombing Plot By John Tirman

John Tirman.com 10 August, 2006 What we now know about the London-based plot to destroy ten civilian airplanes points to six conclusions. First, what stopped this plot was law enforcement.  … Continue reading

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Lebanon’s Descent into Hell By Mike Whitney

ICH 10 Aug 2006 “I know I will die fighting them, then I will go to my God. But I will go to my God fighting like a lion. I … Continue reading

10 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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