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Category Archives: Middle East

Imperial Overreach: From Suez 1956 to Lebanon 2006 By JOHN V. WHITBECK

Counterpunch July 29/30 2006By an odd coincidence of the calendar, Israel’s current assault on Lebanon is occurring precisely 50 years after the “Suez Crisis”. The calendar may not constitute the … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Q & A on Invasion of Lebanon by veteran Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery

July 28, 2006 Counterpunch Q. Who is winning this war? On the 15th day of the war, Hizbullah is functioning and fighting. That by itself will go down in the … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

How Much Longer? By Eduardo Galeano

IPS July 28, 2006 One country bombed two countries. Such impunity might astound were it not business as usual. In response to the few timid protests from the international community, … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

“Professor” of Propaganda: The Lies of Alan Dershowitz By RACHARD ITANI

July 29/30 2006 CounterpunchIn a characteristic op-ed, titled “Arithmetic of Pain”, that would surprise neither his supporters nor his critics, published by the Wall Street Journal on 19 July 2006, … Continue reading

30 July, 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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