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Middle East at a crossroads (Peak Oil) By Richard Heinberg

4 Aug 06 Energy Bulletin At the fifth annual conference of ASPO (the Association for the Study of Peak Oil), held in July in Pisa, Italy, there were many excellent … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Death Toll in Lebanon Reaches 1000; Humanitarian Crisis Mounts As 1/4th of Lebanese Residents Are Displaced

Democracy Now | Monday, August 7th, 2006 The Israeli military is reportedly planning to ramp up its attacks on Lebanon by targetting more of the civilian infrastructure as well as … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Courtesy Juan Cole: Wiping off the Face of the Map

Informed Comment | reprinted Monday 7th August 2006 Beirut before and after courtesy This site. Juan Cole rightly notes: The difference between Ahmadinejad and Olmert is that the Iranian president … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon, 2006, and Czechoslovakia, 1938 – the historical parallels by Justin Raimondo

The New Munich | AntiWar.com | August 7, 2006 As the rape of Lebanon proceeds on schedule, the “civilized world” rushes to give its imprimatur to the slaughter. The U.S. … Continue reading

7 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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