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Saving Face, Not Lives By Ian Williams

TomPaine August 08, 2006Ian Williams is the author of  Deserter, a look at Bush’s military career. He has been covering the U.N. and the Middle East for publications around the … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Destruction, Death, and Drastic Measures By Dahr Jamail

Tom Dispatch Damascus, Syria — “I care about my people, my country, and defending them from the Zionist aggression,” said a Hezbollah fighter after I’d asked him why he joined … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The End of Lebanon? by Ran HaCohen

AntiWar.com 8 August, 2006 The UN Security Council resolution draft on Lebanon reflects a new stage of Western colonialism in the Middle East, and perhaps a historic precedent: for the … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

US/Israeli traps set for Lebanese resistance By Jonathan Cook

Electronic Lebanon, 7 August 2006 Refugees from the war are living in the parks of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, August 4, 2006. (MaanImages/Raoul Kramer) If there were any remaining … Continue reading

8 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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