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War prompts Lebanese brain drain

Declan Walsh in Beirut | The Guardian | Tuesday August 29, 2006 Brain drain: After the war, a new generation of Lebanese are packing their bags to leave. Photograph: Oussama … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Liberated’ Iraq: squalor and death amid ‘Bush’s palace’

Bush ‘palace’ shielded from Iraqi storm Paul McGeough, Baghdad August 26, 2006 THE plans are a state secret, so just where the Starbucks and Krispy Kreme stores will be is … Continue reading

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Ramzy Kysia: For Israel’s “security”?

A powerful piece and heart-rendering account from someone witnessing the aftermath first-hand. Counterpunch 28 August 2006 Zainab Fawzi-Sleem and the Question of Lebanon Houla, Lebanon. Yesterday, I shed my first … Continue reading

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As American media obsesses over Jon-Benet, we mourn Abeer al-Janabi and her family

Where’s the outrage? U.S. troops have been accused of committing atrocities in Iraq. Americans should care. By William Neikirk Tribune senior correspondent 27 Aug 2006 Chicago Tribune Abeer Qassim al-Janabi … Continue reading

29 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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