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The Sinking Ship of U.S. Imperial Designs by Gilbert Achcar

EXCERPT ZNet 6 August 2006 Everyday that passes shows more of those who enthusiastically supported the Bush administration’s imperial drive in the Middle East leaving its sinking ship. There can … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The End of Lebanon? by Ran HaCohen

AntiWar.com 8 August, 2006 The UN Security Council resolution draft on Lebanon reflects a new stage of Western colonialism in the Middle East, and perhaps a historic precedent: for the … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

US/Israeli traps set for Lebanese resistance By Jonathan Cook

Electronic Lebanon, 7 August 2006 Refugees from the war are living in the parks of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, August 4, 2006. (MaanImages/Raoul Kramer) If there were any remaining … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon rejects UN truce proposal which it claims favours Israel

Oliver Burkeman in New York and Clancy Chassay in Beirut Monday August 7, 2006 Guardian Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, piled pressure on Hizbullah to comply with the … Continue reading

7 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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