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Category Archives: Empire, War and Terror

Stressed out and anxious in Beirut By Hugh Sykes

BBC News, Beirut For many in Beirut the bombing feels like collective punishment People keep asking me, “Do you know when it will stop?” I shrug my shoulders, and say: … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

US, France agree UN Lebanon text

BBC As the violence goes on, the UN hopes diplomacy can end the crisis The US and France have agreed the wording of a UN resolution to end the fighting … Continue reading

6 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Holding a Gun, Hezbollah Lends a Hand By Sabrina Tavernise

NY Times | 6 August, 2006 TYRE, Lebanon, Aug. 5 — Hezbollah paid for his wife’s Caesarean section. It brought olive oil, sugar and nuts when he lost his job … Continue reading

5 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Who Will Disarm Hizballah? Not the Lebanese Army

The force envisaged as taking control of the border won’t do so until Hizballah agrees By ANDREW LEE BUTTERS/BEIRUT | TIME

5 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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