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UN on brink of brokering ceasefire agreement

Oliver Burkeman in New York :: Thursday August 3, 2006  :: The Guardian The United Nations appeared on the verge of breaking the deadlock over Lebanon last night, paving the … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Good People of Letters

Guardian Letters :: Thursday August 3, 2006 War crimes and Lebanon The US-backed Israeli assault on Lebanon has left the country numb, smouldering and angry. The massacre in Qana and … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel Launches Massive Ground Invasion of Lebanon: Up to 18000 Troops

Democracy Now :: Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006 Israel has sent as many as 18,000 troops into Lebanon as part of a massive ground invasion. The ground assault comes as Israel … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

EU rebuffs US : Won’t put Hezbollah on terror list By Mark Beunderman

EuObserver 2 Aug 2006 The EU will not for the time being put the Islamist Hezbollah movement on its blacklist of terrorist organisations but the discussion could re-emerge in the … 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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