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Category Archives: Empire, War and Terror

Robert Fisk Reports From Lebanon on the Israeli Bombing of Qana

Democracy Now Lebanon is marking a national day of mourning, a day after Israeli warplanes bombed the village of Qana killing 57. Israel has announced it will halt air strikes … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Seeing (Pentagon) Stars By Frida Berrigan

Article on the current Arms Trade, published today (well yesterday US time) in TomDispatch, direct link here Seeing (Pentagon) Stars By Frida BerriganOh, the stars! We’re riveted by their clothes, … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

A Night of Death and Terror for Lebanese Villagers By Sabrina Tavernise

The New York Times Monday 31 July 2006 Qana, Lebanon – The dead lay in strange shapes. Several had open mouths filled with dirt. Faces were puffy. A man’s arm … Continue reading

1 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israeli refusenik: ‘Palestinians kidnapped every day’ By Emma Clancy

Green Left Weekly Aug 2 2006 SYDNEY: Rotem Mor is a young Israeli refusenik (conscripts who refuse to serve in the military to protest the occupation of the West Bank … Continue reading

1 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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