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The Numbers Do Add Up

Commentaries supporting the recent John Hopkins study in the Lancet of high numbers of Iraq war deaths: Stephen Poole, A level that they tolerate, Unspeak, Oct 12 Daniel Davies, The … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN officials fear unexploded ordnance problem could worsen with winter

UN officials fear unexploded ordnance problem could worsen with winter Report, UN News, 11 October 2006 :: ei Lebanon A United Nations Chinese battalion involved in the de-mining of the … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Can War Be Over When Battles Remain?

Iqbal Jassat :: 8 October 2006 :: ei Lebanon Less than a month after the guns fell silent – despite the ear-splitting roar of Israeli jet fighters regularly searing through … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Anna Politkovskaya’s Final Dispatch

The final dispatch of a reporter murdered for telling the truth This is Anna Politkovskaya’s final unfinished article for her newspaper, Novaya Gazeta. It was written shortly before she was … Continue reading

14 October, 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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