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Category Archives: Middle East Media

The Day That Changed Everything Wasn’t 9/11

by Ira Chernus :: Tom Dispatch Yes, it changed everything – not Sept. 11, 2001, when the Twin Towers collapsed, but Nov. 9, 1989, when the Berlin Wall fell and … Continue reading

11 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

What Women Are Saying About The Violence In the Middle East

By Lucinda Marshall | Countercurrents.org | 06 September, 2006 There has been no shortage of punditry when it comes to the current crisis in the Middle East, however most of … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act

by Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith | The Nation | September 5, 2006 The US War Crimes Act of 1996 makes it a felony to commit grave violations of the … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Alastair Crooke: New Orientalism’s ‘barbarians’ and ‘outlaws’

Daily Star | 5 September 2006 It’s unconscious. It slips out almost inadvertently. It is not deliberate but, rather, a reflex: an Israeli commentator discusses options for clearing Hizbullah from … Continue reading

5 September, 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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