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Israel and total war Felicity Arbuthnot

Al-Ahram 10-16 Aug 2006 International law is rendered irrelevant as Israel, in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, targets whole populations for slow yet purposive extermination, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* The … Continue reading

11 August, 2006

101 Uses of Chaos By Mark LeVine

TomDispatch 10 August 2006Perhaps the greatest illusion of any strategists, leaders, or generals is that they are in control — and perhaps the most hubristic version of this illusion is … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Baghdad morgue count rises again

BBC Wed 9 August 2006 Baghdad morgue count rises again The mortuary now receives up to 70 bodies a day Officials at Baghdad mortuary say they received 1,855 bodies in … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

One Ring to Rule Them By Juan Cole

Informed Comment :: Sunday 6th Aug 2006 The wholesale destruction of all of Lebanon by Israel and the US Pentagon does not make any sense. Why bomb roads, bridges, ports, … Continue reading

7 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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