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How to Avoid War over Water

by Kevin Watkins and Anders Berntell Published on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 by the International Herald Tribune / Paris, France ‘Whisky is for drinking, water is for fighting over,” Mark … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Is Hamas Ready to Deal?

By Scott Atran | New York Times, 17 August. 2006 Paris – Whatever the endgame between Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas, one thing is certain: Israel’s hopes of ensuring its security … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN warns of ‘security vacuum’ in Lebanon *

The Age | 23 August, 2006 It could take three months to fill the post-war “security vacuum” in southern Lebanon and even unintended breaches of the truce could reignite fighting … Continue reading

23 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

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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