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Category Archives: Middle East

Reparations for Iran by Rosemarie Jackowski

Selves and Others Wed 9 August 2006  On August 19, 1953 the government of the United States executed a coup d’etat in Iran. What was it that angered U.S. policy … Continue reading

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A Million Mutinies Now

It’s Time to Say ’No!’ to the Bullies in the Middle East Playground Selves and Others Wednesday 9 August 2006, by Anonymous   The Canadian economist and US Presidential advisor, … Continue reading

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IDF’s new weapon: Snipers who fought in Chechnya By Yossi Yehoshua

Golani fighters joined by snipers hailing from states that fought in Chechnya, Afghanistan Ynet 9 Aug 2006 Fighters of the 51st Battalion of Golani received aid from an unusual source … Continue reading

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The Grave Consequences of Supporting War in Lebanon By Scott Ritter

Alternet 9 Aug 2006 With Israel waging an all-out war against the forces of Hezbollah, and the death toll in terms of civilian casualties mounting on a daily basis, the … Continue reading

10 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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