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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

The War has Backfired for Israel, and Its Old Lebanese Curse Keeps Getting Worse

Most citizens in Lebanon now back Hezbollah by Eric Margolis | Sunday, August 6, 2006 by the Toronto Sun (Canada) | reproduced at Common Dreams NEW YORK — Last week, … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel’s Arab citizens have no public bomb shelters, bearing brunt of attacks

There is no public bomb shelter in any of the Arab communities. Article by Yoav Stern in Ha’aretz

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary? (In a word, No) by Robert Freeman

Sunday, August 6, 2006 | CommonDreams.org Few issues in American history – perhaps only slavery itself – are as charged as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. Was … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Syrian Foreign Minister Visits Lebanon By Anadolu News Agency (aa)

A place I’d like to be a fly on the wall …! Beirut Sunday, August 06, 2006 zaman.com Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Moallem arrived in Lebanon on Sunday. Lebanon’s State … Continue reading

6 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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