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Category Archives: Iran

Upbeat and full of promise: The New Arab World

Contrast with this view here by Alain Gresh that pessimistically foresees greater crisis and calamity in the region: ‘The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

How Washington Goaded Israel

Stephen Zunes | FPIP | August 21, 2006 There is increasing evidence that Israel instigated a disastrous war on Lebanon largely at the behest of the United States. The Bush … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel: a State built on lies

By Punyapriya Dasgupta 19 Aug 2006 Information Clearing House The outcome of Israeli military’s own inquiry into Qana II was to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International something far from … Continue reading

20 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

State-within-a-state: mirror images in the Middle East

I thought this was a great observation by Randy Marks on TKCollier’s blog, and he has kindly consented to my quoting it: After WW2 the Brits left Palestine and there … Continue reading

19 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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