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A downbeat view: Critics Decry “Destroy and Lend” Policy

By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) – Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

“Water Wars” a Myth, Say Experts

By Thalif Deen | 25 August 2006 STOCKHOLM, Aug 25 (IPS) – The world’s future wars will be fought not over oil but water: an ominous prediction made by the … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hasan Abu Nimah: Missing the point again?

The Jordan Times | 30 August 2006 The UN-led post-war arrangements in Lebanon seem to be missing the point once more. All efforts so far seem to focus on containing … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Vicki Gray: The Militarisation of the American Language

t r u t h o u t | Wednesday 30 August 2006 Once was a time when we used to joke that military justice is to justice as military … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · 1 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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