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Monthly Archives: July, 2006

How Do we Sleep While Beirut is Burning? Hamid Dabashi

Live from Lebanon, 29 July 2006 “Lebanon could have been a model of productive ideological conflicts, of civil discourse, progressive politics, foreign investments, domestic contestations, intellectual diversity, moral variations. Beirut … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Dahr Jamail Daily Despatches From Beirut: Israeli Chest Beating — While Losing the War

EXCERPT: In a televised address this Tuesday, Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, said the Israeli attack on Lebanon is an attempt by the U.S. and Israel to “impose a … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Beirut Spring: Lebanon’s water is to Israel what Iraqi oil is to America

Litani Dreams The Mask has fallen. Israel has decided to occupy an area of Lebanon “as a security zone”. I had a fishy pre-sentiment about that. I knew it since … Continue reading

30 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

Anyone Who Opposes Israel is Labeled a Terrorist By VIJAY PRASHAD

Counterpunch July28/ 29 2005 EXCERPT On September 18, 2001, during a press conference at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld borrowed and twisted Harkabi’s metaphor. “Terrorists do not function in … Continue reading

30 July, 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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