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Robert Fisk: Hizbollah’s reconstruction of Lebanon is winning the loyalty of disaffected Shia

The Independent 24 August 2006 Hizbollah has trumped both the UN army and the Lebanese government by pouring hundreds of millions of dollars – most of it almost certainly from … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rules of conduct in western media on I-P

Anon. – forwarded by a friend — if anyone might know to whom I may acknowledge as the author of this, drop me a line. BTW, we know that most … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Siege of Beirut and Hezbollah Backgrounder

Both these pieces are from Australia’s Dateline on SBS, well worth either watching the clips and/or reading the transcripts; links as follows. The Siege of Beirut (broadcast 23 Aug 2006) … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

McGreevy: Beautiful Beirut

Juan Cole Patrick McGreevy writes from Beirut: Beautiful Beirut Is a moment of crisis a time to understand a place? Or only a time to romanticize or demonize because our … Continue reading

24 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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