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China to send 1,000 peacekeepers to Lebanon

Times Online September 18, 2006 Wen Jiabao, the Chinese Prime Minister, during his visit to Europe (Lindsey Parnaby/EPA) By Sam Knight and agencies China said today it would send 1,000 … Continue reading

19 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus

By Alex Steffen | WorldChanging Aug 2006 The Second Superpower – Cooperation, Politics and Activism What really threatens us? How do we truly make ourselves safer? The Cato Institute (a … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Thoughtful commentary from Israeli commentator

The great escape | By Daniel Gavron Ha’aretz | 17 September 2006 There is something obsessive about our current compulsion to tinker with the framework of our governing bodies: a … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Ancient Phoenicia under threat

Al-Ahram | 14 – 20 September 2006 Issue No. 812 Nevine El-Aref looks at the UNESCO’s efforts to rescue Lebanon’s historical sites following the Israeli-Hizbullah ceasefire Click to view caption … Continue reading

17 September, 2006 · 1 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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