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Robert Fisk: As the 6am ceasefire takes effect… the real war begins

Independent 14 August 2006 The real war in Lebanon begins today. The world may believe – and Israel may believe – that the UN ceasefire due to come into effect … Continue reading

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Discourse of the mean spirits: False mantras, euphemisms and naked hypocrisy by Paul de Rooij

Selves and Others Monday 14 August 2006 In the face of a major Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon many politicians and pundits have sought to justify the Israeli actions, … Continue reading

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Iranian leader launches blog aimed at international audience by Robert Tait in Tehran

Guardian Monday 14 August, 2006 The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP His political approach has become a byword for populism and yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with … Continue reading

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Seymour Hersch: Bush ‘helped Israelis attack on Lebanon’ | Dan Glaister

Original Seymour Hersch article here Guardian 14 August, 2006 The US government was closely involved in planning the Israeli campaign in Lebanon, even before Hizbullah seized two Israeli soldiers in … 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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