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From Baghdad to Beirut: Dem Now interviews Juan Cole

Democracy Now Friday, August 4th, 2006 As Israel expands air strikes on Lebanon, an estimated 250,000 Iraqi Shias have gathered in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City for a rally … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli raids cutting off Lebanon’s lifeline By Sam Ghattas

Irish Examiner 05 August 2006 ISRAEL’S pounding of Hezbollah positions across Lebanon expanded yesterday, with missiles targeting bridges in the Christian heartland north of Beirut. More than 50 Lebanese people … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Justice Is Dead, If You’re Born an Arab By Lubna Hussain

Arab News 4 Aug 2006 EXCERPT: If Bush, Blair and Olmert truly believe that their war crimes in Lebanon are going to crush the influence of Hezbollah they not only … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

OPT: Telephone Terror By Khalid Amayreh

Al-Ahram Weekly 3-9 August 2006 Gazans are being warned by telephone to vacate their homes or be bombed, unsure if the calls are genuine or just cruel, sadistic punishment, writes … Continue reading

5 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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