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Category Archives: International Law

Palestinian Child Prisoners in Israel and the Siege of Gaza

A short clip from ITV in the UK on Palestinian child prisoners deplorably held in and by Israel (4.31), which involves the regular flouting of international law. **See also Lisa … Continue reading

2 November, 2007 · Leave a comment

Hersh on Shifting Targets: Bush-Cheney Junta’s Plans for Iran

I present Hersh’s latest New Yorker article in full here not because I treat his articles as gospel — one should always treat every piece, especially those who purport to … Continue reading

1 October, 2007 · 2 Comments

Pepe Escobar: Welcome to Planet Gaza

Accompanied by the superlative cartoonists Andy Singer and Carlos Latuff, here is Pepe Escobar in a piece aptly entitled Welcome to Planet Gaza (Asia Times Online, 22 Sept 2007). For … Continue reading

26 September, 2007 · 1 Comment

Rabbi Lerner and Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA) on AIPAC’s influence

As the much anticipated book The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by Walt and Mearsheimer is released this month, the liberal Jewish-spiritual progressive magazine Tikkun has its current issue … Continue reading

16 September, 2007 · 8 Comments

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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