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Israel indebted to Iran

Well, well. We’ve heard of those terrible suicides by heavily indebted Indian farmers, but this could perhaps be the most tragic death-wish to escape debt story we’ve yet seen, at … Continue reading

7 December, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iraq: The War of the Imagination

See also Civil War in Iraq Near, Annan Says: Study Group Begins Two-Day Meeting A book review by Mark Danner follows  New York Review of Books State of Denial: Bush … Continue reading

29 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Uri Avnery: An Evening in Jounieh

The opening anecdote makes me wonder whether the Israel and Lebanon right-wing “elites” are not all that different at a sociological level … of course the fascist-inspired Phalange were Israel-allied … Continue reading

26 November, 2006 · Leave a comment

Off its rocker: apartheid state beating war drums

While the UN high commissioner for human rights, Louise Arbour, condemns massive human rights abuses in Gaza even as Israel launches raids, the fear-mongering about Iran by Netanyahu continues, with … Continue reading

21 November, 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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