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Donor nations pledge $1b in aid for Lebanon

ABC Australia Last Update: Friday, September 1, 2006. 8:04am (AEST) Lebanese officials estimate the damage from the conflict is in the billions of dollars. (AFP) Donor nations have pledged $US940 … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Caracas: 5000 houses can fit into a single golf course

Venezuela to seize golf courses Guardian | Wednesday 30 August 2006 Venezuela’s golf courses are seen as havens for the rich The mayor of Venezuela’s capital Caracas says he plans … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Revolutionary Oaxaca: From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power

By George Salzman | Counterpunch | August 30, 2006 Oaxaca, Mexico. Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. … Continue reading

31 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why It’s Not Working in Afghanistan

By Ann Jones TomDispatch Aug 27 Remember when peaceful, democratic, reconstructed Afghanistan was advertised as the exemplar for the extreme makeover of Iraq? In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald … Continue reading

29 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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