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Newsday MidEast Bureau Chief Mohamad Bazzi on Reporting the War in Lebanon

Democracy Now Friday, August 4th, 2006 In our continuing coverage of how the war in Lebanon is being reported, part two of our discussion with Lebanese-born journalist and Newsday Middle … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

From Baghdad to Beirut: Dem Now interviews Juan Cole

Democracy Now Friday, August 4th, 2006 As Israel expands air strikes on Lebanon, an estimated 250,000 Iraqi Shias have gathered in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City for a rally … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bishop Riah, Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem: Letter about Gaza, West Bank, Lebanon

The Rt. Rev. Riah H. Abu El-Assal Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem ICH 2 August 2006 “My plan is that I will be able to go to Lebanon next week, to … Continue reading

4 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Shi’a crescent: myth or reality? By Abigail Fielding-Smith

Open Democracy 28 July 2006 With tensions growing in the middle east, leaders and policymakers have started warning of an increasingly powerful Shi’a crescent, bolstered by Iran. Abigail Fielding-Smith uncovers … Continue reading

4 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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