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A downbeat view: Critics Decry “Destroy and Lend” Policy

By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) – Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Donor nations pledge $1b in aid for Lebanon

ABC Australia Last Update: Friday, September 1, 2006. 8:04am (AEST) Lebanese officials estimate the damage from the conflict is in the billions of dollars. (AFP) Donor nations have pledged $US940 … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Donors pledge over $940m for Lebanon

Agencies | Thursday August 31, 2006 Guardian Unlimited A man in a southern suburb of Beirut inspects damage caused by an overnight Israeli air raid. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP. International donors … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN: Israeli cluster bombs immoral

31 August 2006 Al Jazeera Cluster bombs have caused 59 casualties since the ceasefire     The UN’s humanitarian chief has described Israel’s use of cluster bombs in south Lebanon … Continue reading

31 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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