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A War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War

Prosecuting Israel By FRANCIS A. BOYLE 2 August 2006 :: ICH The United Nations General Assembly must immediately establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI) as a “subsidiary organ” … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hizbullah’s attacks stem from Israeli incursions into Lebanon

By Anders Strindberg 01/08/06 Christian Science Monitor NEW YORK – As pundits and policymakers scramble to explain events in Lebanon, their conclusions are virtually unanimous: Hizbullah created this crisis. Israel … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Baghdad burning By Nermeen Al-Mufti

Al-Ahram Weekly | 3-9 Aug 2006   With no immediate prospect of a US withdrawal from Iraq, Nermeen Al-Mufti examines the human cost of the ongoing sectarian violence

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

UK: MPs attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel

Richard Norton-Taylor :: Thursday August 3, 2006 :: The Guardian The government must explain why it continues to approve the sale of arms to Israel in apparent breach of its … 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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