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Villagers See Violations of a Cease-Fire That Israel Says Doesn’t Exist

By ROBERT F. WORTH | NY Times | September 1, 2006 [sections highlighted in bold by me] AITA AL SHAAB, Lebanon, Aug. 29 — A group of local men were … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Noam Chomsky: Their View of the World is Through a Bombsight

Excellent analysis  American support for Israel’s unwinnable aim of destroying Hizbullah only boosts its support in Lebanon and beyond 1 Sept 2006 | The Guardian In Lebanon, a little-honoured truce … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Mike Whitney: Is Hamas a Terrorist Organisation?

ICH | 1 Sept 2006 The Bush administration should seriously consider removing Hamas from the State Department’s list of terrorist organisations. Most people don’t realize that Hamas (Islamic Resistance Party) … Continue reading

2 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Jim Lobe: “Fascism” Frame Set Up by Right-Wing Press

WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) – The aggressive new campaign by the administration of President George W. Bush to depict U.S. foes in the Middle East as “fascists” and its domestic … Continue reading

2 September, 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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