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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Israel’s cluster bombs and alleged phosphorus use have escaped attention

Mideast Weapons Deserve Scrutiny :: 2 Aug 2006 :: FAIR On July 24, Human Rights Watch reported that Israel was using cluster bombs “in populated areas of Lebanon,” which it … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Banking on War By William Rivers Pitt

t r u t h o u t | Perspective | Wednesday 02 August 2006 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Fears grow as Tyre runs short of food, fuel – and hope

  Jonathan Steele in Tyre Thursday August 3, 2006 The Guardian With food and fuel stocks running perilously low, local and international aid officials in this frontline town were preparing … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

World’s Water Resources Face Mounting Pressure By Elizabeth Mygatt

Earth Policy Institute     Tuesday 01 August 2006     Global freshwater use tripled during the second half of the twentieth century as population more than doubled and as technological advances let farmers … Continue reading

3 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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