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In one neighourhood alone, 127 Ground Zeros

Astonishing interactive graphic from the NYT here

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Courtesy Juan Cole: Wiping off the Face of the Map

Informed Comment | reprinted Monday 7th August 2006 Beirut before and after courtesy This site. Juan Cole rightly notes: The difference between Ahmadinejad and Olmert is that the Iranian president … Continue reading

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Lebanon, 2006, and Czechoslovakia, 1938 – the historical parallels by Justin Raimondo

The New Munich | AntiWar.com | August 7, 2006 As the rape of Lebanon proceeds on schedule, the “civilized world” rushes to give its imprimatur to the slaughter. The U.S. … Continue reading

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Lebanon rejects UN truce proposal which it claims favours Israel

Oliver Burkeman in New York and Clancy Chassay in Beirut Monday August 7, 2006 Guardian Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, piled pressure on Hizbullah to comply with the … Continue reading

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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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