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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

Hezbollywood? Digitally Erasing a Massacre: Why Hezbollywood was Born By Andrew Ford Lyons

Counterpunch 15 August, 2006 If a regular old picture is worth a thousand words, how much does a digitally altered image fetch on the international market today? I ask because … Continue reading

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In a military democracy, it is the warriors who call the shots By George Monbiot

The Guardian Tuesday August 15, 2006 The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but it has done nothing to dent the generals’ power.

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Demographic inequality: The boys are wanted, the girls aborted By Isabelle Attané

Le Monde August 2006 Number of men per 100 women Europe: 92.7 North America (US & Canada): 96.9 Latin America: 97.5 Oceania: 99.5 Africa: 99.8 Asia: 103.9 China: 105.6 India: … Continue reading

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Settlers on Israel’s eastern frontier By Gadi Algazi

Le Monde Diplomatique August 2006 The settlements of the West Bank built in the past decade, privately financed and publicly backed, have attracted nonpolitical Jews, both the well-off looking for … Continue reading

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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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