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Alastair Crooke: New Orientalism’s ‘barbarians’ and ‘outlaws’

Daily Star | 5 September 2006 It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for clearing Hizbullah from … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Pilger :: Breaking the Silence

Worthwhile view. Run it while you’re doing other work and listen to the audio, which is alone worth a listen. Afghanistan has been off the radar of late and so … Continue reading

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Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up

by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) – The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Lebanon’s Coast Is Drowning in Oil

A spill caused by an Israeli airstrike has blackened popular beaches and threatens the economy and delicate ecosystems. By Borzou Daragahi | Times Staff Writer | 4 September, 2006 BEIRUT … Continue reading

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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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