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Some Common Sense From US Foreign Policy Establishment

‘US Elite Leader Endorses Hamas Peace Plan’ :: By Ira Chernus :: Common Dreams :: 1 Aug 2006 Before the Israelis started dropping bombs on Lebanon, they should have taken … Continue reading

2 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Survivors of 1996 Qana Massacre Sue Israel Military Chief For War Crimes

Democracy Now :: Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 In April of 1996 the Israeli Defense Force shelled Qana’s U.N. compound, killing 106 civilians who had been seeking refuge inside. The Center … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Not in My Name By Nour Odeh

The Electronic Intifada, 30 July 2006 A demonstrator leaves a placard in a Lebanese army post outside the UN house, 30 July 2006. (Christian Henderson/(IRIN) Words are cheap when used … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon war: the normalisation of barbarism By Ghassan Hage

[Abridged from a speech given by Allisar Gazel on behalf of Ghassan Hage at the 20,000-strong July 22 rally in Sydney against Israeli aggression. Gazel is the dean of anthropology … Continue reading

1 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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