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Corporate war machine gathers speed By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Asia Times 15 August 2006 There is strong evidence that as the Bush administration is mulling over plans to bomb Iran, the simmering conflict between high-ranking military professionals and militaristic … Continue reading

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

How Superpowers Become Impotent By Richard K. Betts

In Lebanon and Iraq, guerrilla tactics turn clean, mean fighting machines into wimps. Los Angeles Times 14 August 2006 BEING A superpower is handy. No government in the world dares … Continue reading

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Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure By Robert Fisk

The Independent 15 Aug 2006 They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa – or what was once the village of Srifa – is a place of pancaked homes, … Continue reading

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Gush Shalom’s proposal

The military solution Has failed.   The unilateral solution Has failed.   It’s worthwhile to Try something else:   An agreement with Lebanon (Including Hizbullah).   An agreement with Syria … Continue reading

15 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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