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Palestinians in Gaza largely cut off from outside world

Report, IRIN, 6 September 2006 Palestinians crossing between Gaza Strip and Egypt after the re-opening of Rafah border crossing. They were able to leave fenced-in Gaza without having to submit … Continue reading

6 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

Lebanon: Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery

IRIN, 5 September 2006 RAS AL-AIN/ TYRE – Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up

by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) – The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

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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