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The Shi’a crescent: myth or reality? By Abigail Fielding-Smith

Open Democracy 28 July 2006 With tensions growing in the middle east, leaders and policymakers have started warning of an increasingly powerful Shi’a crescent, bolstered by Iran. Abigail Fielding-Smith uncovers … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

No peace without Hezbollah, says Beirut

SMH Colum Lynch and Glenn Kessler in New York August 4, 2006 LEBANON’S acting Foreign Minister, Tarek Mitri, doubts that his government would agree to a European-led intervention force in … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Opinion: The world must rein in Israel By Brian Whitaker

The onslaught on Lebanon is fuelling recruitment to terrorist groups and denials of the Jewish state’s right to exist. Guardian Comment is free August 3, 2006 It seems increasingly likely … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel hijacks Al-Manar’s signal to broadcast its own propaganda

By Agence France Presse (AFP) :: Daily Star :: Thursday, August 03, 2006 BEIRUT: Israel hacked into Hizbullah’s television channel Tuesday, showing pictures of corpses and claiming the group’s leader, … Continue reading

3 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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