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In a military democracy, it is the warriors who call the shots By George Monbiot

The Guardian Tuesday August 15, 2006 The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals’ power.

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Lebanon, Iraq, Israel and the US Neocons: Everything Old Is New By William Rivers Pitt

t r u t h o u t Perspective | Tuesday 15 August 2006 Everything old becomes new again, or so the saying goes. Nowhere is this more evident than … Continue reading

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‘Withdrawing doesn’t work’: the distorted logic of Netanyahu and his ilk

It always bemuses me how wanton distortion of causality works. It recalls the famous remark from Francis Bacon, recalling Aesop: It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon … Continue reading

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Examining Iran’s Ties to Hezbollah By William O. Beeman

In These Times Tuesday 15 August 2006 Just how much influence does the Islamic Republic wield over Hezbollah? The conflict in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah had hardly begun when … 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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