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The Anti-American Century? ‘Why They Hate Us’ By Julia E. Sweig

Los Angeles Times Tuesday 15 August 2006 No, it’s not our freedoms. Anti-Americanism isn’t going away until the US puts some fairness in its foreign policy. America’s moral standing in … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Withdrawing doesn’t work’: the distorted logic of Netanyahu and his ilk

It always bemuses me how wanton distortion of causality works. It recalls the famous remark from Francis Bacon, recalling Aesop: It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Mad Dog On A Leash By Sheila Samples

“We should prepare to go on the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy … Continue reading

15 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Desert of trapped corpses testifies to Israel’s failure By Robert Fisk

The Independent 15 Aug 2006 They made a desert and called it peace. Srifa – or what was once the village of Srifa – is a place of pancaked homes, … Continue reading

15 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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