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James Brooks: The US Peace Movement and Hezbollah

Counterpunch | 29 August, 2006 The Big Picture (Don’t Look, Now) Many peace activists may have felt somewhat bewildered by Hezbollah’s smashing success in outfoxing and outfighting the Israeli army … Continue reading

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James Petras: The Lobby and the Israeli Invasion of Lebanon

Their Facts And Ours Dissident Voice | 29 August 2006 All the national, state and local Jewish organizations have launched a $300 million fundraising and propaganda campaign in support of … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · 1 Comment

Europe the peacekeeper

Sending stabilising forces to Lebanon may be good for the EU’s image, but the task ahead has been dubbed ‘mission impossible’, says Ian Black Guardian Unlimited | Friday August 25, … Continue reading

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The value of mea culpas in the Middle East

Christian Science Monitor OpEd | 30 August 2006 Just when his star could not be higher among Muslims, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah said this week that he regrets provoking Israel … 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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