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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Highly Recommended Read | Annexing Lebanese Land and Water: ‘It’s About Annexation, Stupid!’ by Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Asia Times | Friday, August 4, 2006 Officially, Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon is an act of self-defense against Hezbollah’s threat, aimed at creating a security buffer zone until the … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Beautifully written: When I Last Saw Lebanon By GEORGE BISHARAT

Counterpunch | August 4 2006 It had always taken my breath away, cresting the ridge from the Beka’a Valley, and descending toward the sea, when I caught the first glimpse … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

IDF Fails to Explain Qana Bombing: Independent International Inquiry Required

Human Rights Watch | 3 August 2006 For Immediate Release (Beirut, August 3, 2006) – The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) inquiry into the July 30 killing of at least 28 … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

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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