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George Galloway: Hizbullah’s victory has transformed the Middle East

The defeat of the regional superpower could yet open the way to a wider settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict 31 August 2006 The Guardian As the smoke clears from the … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Murdoch’s The Australian: Speaking UNtruth WITH Power

Pathetic and blatantly war-mongering, misleading Australian Editorial [with my comments bracketed in bold]: ‘A nuclear Iran is not an option’ | September 01, 2006 Unenforced deadlines make a mockery of … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Vale Naguib Mahfouz

Nobel prize winning novelist who brought Arabic fiction to the western world Denys Johnson-Davies | The Guardian | Thursday August 31, 2006 The Egyptian novelist Naguib Mahfouz, who has died … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

30 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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