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Category Archives: Empire, War and Terror

Understanding Hezbollah — Ground to a Halt By Robert Pape

Evidence of the broad nature of Hezbollah’s resistance to Israeli occupation can be seen in the identity of its suicide attackers. New York Times | 3 Aug 2006 Israel has … Continue reading

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US public opinion

The Times | 4 August 2006 | Full article here | From Tom Baldwin in Washington 43 per cent thinks Israel’s actions justified, not excessively harsh 28 per cent thinks … Continue reading

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Blair, Olmert and Bush are murderers By George Galloway MP

ICH 4 Aug 2006 “Expanding and strengthening” the onslaught against the people of Lebanon. That was Israel’s response to the international outcry over the slaughter of 56 civilians, most of … Continue reading

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From Baghdad to Beirut: Dem Now interviews Juan Cole

Democracy Now Friday, August 4th, 2006 As Israel expands air strikes on Lebanon, an estimated 250,000 Iraqi Shias have gathered in the Baghdad suburb of Sadr City for a rally … Continue reading

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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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