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Ramzy Kysia: For Israel’s “security”?

A powerful piece and heart-rendering account from someone witnessing the aftermath first-hand. Counterpunch 28 August 2006 Zainab Fawzi-Sleem and the Question of Lebanon Houla, Lebanon. Yesterday, I shed my first … Continue reading →

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Charley Reese: Bigotry and Ignorance of Islam

Antiwar.com | 28 August 2006 President George Bush’s ignorance of the Middle East and its people is well-known. So also is his habit of parroting words and sentences given to … Continue reading →

28 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Islamic Way of ‘War’ (or simply resistance)?

The American Conservative Copyright © 2006 September 11, 2006 Issue The Islamic Way of War Muslims have stopped fighting on Western terms—and have started winning. by Andrew J. Bacevich In … Continue reading →

28 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Language and Politics

Wrong War, Wrong Word by Katha Pollitt | The Nation posted August 24, 2006 (September 11, 2006 issue) If you control the language, you control the debate. As the Bush … Continue reading →

27 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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