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Corporate war machine gathers speed By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Asia Times 15 August 2006 There is strong evidence that as the Bush administration is mulling over plans to bomb Iran, the simmering conflict between high-ranking military professionals and militaristic … Continue reading

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

How the Irish Could Save the Middle East By Conn Hallinan

Counterpunch 12/13 Aug 2006  History is the story we tell ourselves in the present about the past. But how we punctuate the story-where we put the periods, the commas, and … Continue reading

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

American support may no longer be enough By Martin Jacques

Israel’s long-term future lies in connecting with its Arab neighbours, not a western superpower thousands of miles away Guardian Monday August 14, 2006 This has been a war that did … Continue reading

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Iranian leader launches blog aimed at international audience by Robert Tait in Tehran

Guardian Monday 14 August, 2006 The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP His political approach has become a byword for populism and yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with … Continue reading

14 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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