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SICKENING: Israel Asks U.S. to Ship Rockets With Wide Blast By DAVID S. CLOUD

New York Times 11 August 2006 WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — Israel has asked the Bush administration to speed delivery of short-range antipersonnel rockets armed with cluster munitions, which it could … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

America Struggles With Its Own Evangelical Taliban by Pierre Tristam

Daytona Beach News-Journal Tue 1 Aug 2006 At this late stage of the Bush rapture, American evangelism is a lot like the Exxon Valdez: Massive, sloshing with oily energy and … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon Oil Spill May Rival Exxon Valdez of 1989

Aug. 8 (Bloomberg) — Lebanon’s oil spill, caused by Israeli bombardment of oil storage units at a power plant, may rival the leakage from the Exxon Valdez in Alaska in … Continue reading

12 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel and total war Felicity Arbuthnot

Al-Ahram 10-16 Aug 2006 International law is rendered irrelevant as Israel, in Lebanon now as well as Gaza, targets whole populations for slow yet purposive extermination, writes Felicity Arbuthnot* The … Continue reading

11 August, 2006

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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