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UN officials fear unexploded ordnance problem could worsen with winter

UN officials fear unexploded ordnance problem could worsen with winter Report, UN News, 11 October 2006 :: ei Lebanon A United Nations Chinese battalion involved in the de-mining of the … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

To Embody the UN

Le Monde | Editorial | 13 October 2006 | t r u t h o u t Handing over his post in 1953, the first Secretary General for the United … Continue reading

14 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Wars and propaganda machines

By Rodrigue Tremblay “The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements — I had no idea until then that you could not rely … Continue reading

11 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanese PM urges UN action over Israeli flights

ABC Australia :: Last Update: Saturday, October 7, 2006. 8:27pm (AEST) Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has appealed to United Nations chief Kofi Annan to put pressure on Israel to stop … Continue reading

7 October, 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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