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Uncomfortable Truths about Israel

By Larry C. Johnson | 21 August 2006 AlterNet What would we be saying if Hizbullah kidnapped the Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and launched a daring raid inside Israel to … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Counterpunch :: 19-20 August, 2006 By STEPHEN FLEISCHMAN A self-fulfilling prophecy-as defined by Robert K. Merton, 20th Century sociologist who coined the phrase-is that a prediction, in being made, actually … Continue reading

21 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

What Does Israel Want?

It isn’t just Lebanon… by Justin Raimondo AntiWar.com :: 21 August, 2006 Is anyone really surprised that Israel violated the cease-fire? Here, after all, is a nation that has defied … Continue reading

21 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Redrawing The Middle East Map

Blood borders ‘How a better Middle East would look’ By Ralph Peters Armed Forces Journal 20 August 2006 International borders are never completely just. But the degree of injustice they … Continue reading

21 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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