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UN body criticises US on rights

BBC 28 July 2006 Help was slow in reaching many in New Orleans after Katrina The US should immediately shut all secret detention facilities used in its campaign against terror … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

A nice little war By Uri Avnery (30/7)

It is the old story about the losing gambler: he cannot stop. He continues to play, in order to win his losses back. He continues to lose and continues to … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Chasing oil and coming home to another massacre By Zena el-Khalil

Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006 “Qana” by Mazen Kerbaj. View more of his work. Yesterday, a few of us got into a car and … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

“And still, it continues …”: Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana

various writing from Lebanon, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006 Today in the Lebanese village of Qana, over 54 civilians, including at least 34 children, were killed in Israel’s most … Continue reading

31 July, 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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