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Category Archives: Middle East

Bush’s axis of failure By Sidney Blumenthal

Open Democracy 9 August 2006 The neo-conservative dogma that has ruined Iraq is now being applied to the Lebanon war. The result could be a regional conflagration with untold consequences, … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Time to demilitarise Israel By Zafarul-Islam Khan

Information Clearing House  The Israeli-American adventure in Lebanon has badly backfired. Condi’s “birthpangs” have led to a still birth. Israel has been exposed as a giant with feet of clay. … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

France and Lebanon: diplomacy of tragedy By Patrice de Beer

Open Democracy 10 August 2006 The Lebanese war has allowed France’s president to re-energise his own and the country’s political profile, says Patrice de Beer in Paris. The war in … Continue reading

11 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

US neocons hoped Israel would attack Syria By Tom Regan

Israel considered expansion of conflict in Lebanon ‘nuts.’ csmonitor.com The White House, and in particular White House advisors who belong to the neoconservative movement, allegedly encouraged Israel to attack Syria … Continue reading

11 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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