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Monthly Archives: August, 2006

The assault on Lebanon was premeditated: George Monbiot corrects his own previous assumption

Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong The assault on Lebanon was premeditated – the soldiers’ capture simply provided the excuse. It was also unnecessary Tuesday August … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

How the US fired Jack Straw By William Rees-Mogg

The Times 7 August 2006 The Foreign Secretary spoke his mind on the Middle East — and became a target in Washington. WHEN JACK STRAW was replaced by Margaret Beckett … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

IDF warns UN troops will be attacked if they repair bridges

This from the Guardian: According to the UN, Israeli officials said the engineers would become a target if they attempted to repair the bridge.   Senior UN officials reacted angrily … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Damage is done’ to Lebanon coast by Mark Kinver

BBC 8 August 2006 A satellite image shows the extent of the slick Lebanon’s coastline could take up to 10 years to recover from a massive oil spill, the nation’s … Continue reading

8 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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