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Top US envoy tells Lebanese Israel has rejected troop withdrawal

AP 9 Aug 2006 BEIRUT, Lebanon It was a top U-S envoy who carried the message to Lebanon that Israel is rejecting a troop withdrawal. Assistant Secretary of State David … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Flashback 1982 + Day 29 By Anne Penketh

Independent 10 August 2006 Israel has approved a major escalation of war by voting to send thousands of fresh troops deeper into Lebanon in an expanded offensive echoing its invasion … Continue reading

10 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Angry MPs demand recall of parliament: Discontent over UK’s Lebanon policy

Patrick Wintour, Ewen MacAskill and Oliver Burkeman in New York The Guardian Wednesday August 9, 2006 Up to 100 MPs, most of them Labour, are to demand an immediate recall … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Into the Valley of Death By Tim Llewellyn

Counterpunch 8 August 2006 I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.” Macbeth Israel’s capacity to shed … Continue reading

9 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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