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Fox Military Analyst on Syria: ‘We Can Talk To Them When We Line Them Up and Kill Them’

And this passes for civilised, intelligent, considered discourse?    Think Progress Aug 9 2006 Watch video clip here With the Bush administration refusing to hold direct talks with Syria, Col. … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Handy-Dandy Guide To U.S. Foreign Policy By Nicholas von Hoffman

New York Observer 9 August 2006 Q: What is the difference between a regime and a government? A: A regime is a government disliked by the United States. A government … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

“Doing the Lebanesea Favour” By Chales Hirschkind

Counterpunch August 9, 2006 “It is time that we recognize that Israel’s practice of using overwhelming military force to achieve its political goals has reached the condition of a neurosis, … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who? Me?! By Israel’s Voice of Conscience Uri Avnery

TODAY, THE war entered its fifth week. Hard to believe: our mighty army has now been fighting for 29 days against a “gang” and “terrorist organization”, as the military commanders … 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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