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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Fisk: War is a failure of the human spirit

Ain’t that the truth … Nice short pithy run-time of 55 seconds – as excerpted from Amy Goodman’s Democracy Now

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Chavez: Lebanon destroyed by genocidal hand of Israel

Associated Press :: Y-Net :: 19 August 2006 Venezuelan president announces nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for Palestinians; calls Lebanese ‘heroic people’ President Hugo Chavez … Continue reading

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Fisk: No wonder the UN can’t find volunteers

I don’t entirely agree with Fisk here — the Europeans are to differing degrees complicit by omission and commission too — but always find his pieces worthwhile  Europeans are sick … Continue reading

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli raid a provocation to prolong conflict?

Annan: IDF raid in eastern Lebanon is violation of cease-fire :: Ha’aretz By Amos Harel and Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondents and The Associated Press and Reuters EXCERPT: [Lebanese Foreign Minister] … Continue reading

20 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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