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Stephen M. Walt on the myth of Israeli strategic 'genius'

Along with his co-author John Mearsheimer, no-one has been more responsible for starting to turn the tide in US academe towards a more sensible US foreign policy and away from … Continue reading

21 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

Operation Unpunished Lead: Eduard Galeano

“To justify itself, state terrorism manufactures terrorists: it sows hate and reaps alibis,” writes Eduardo Galeano, who dedicates the article “to my Jewish friends who were murdered by Latin American … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

A Tale Of Two Summits

On Friday, an emergency summit took place in Doha to discuss ceasefire prospects for Gaza. In protest against the war on Gaza, Qatar and Mauritania had suspended ties with Israel … Continue reading

20 January, 2009 · Leave a comment

The Six Day War Deceptions: A Historical Corrective

These excellent Dutch videos are an important historical corrective to one of the widely propagated founding myths of the state of Israel, that in 1967 its Six Day wars, which … Continue reading

19 January, 2009 · 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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