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Deborah Orr: Israel has turned Gaza into a prison

Israel has turned Gaza into a prison. There can only be one reason for such inhumanity. Reports from eyewitnesses say that farmers trying to protect their land are being beaten … Continue reading

3 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Israel, the traumatised bully

A perceptive (and one of the few sane) comments in the reader feedback section on Ha’aretz online. Ha’aretz is the better Israeli daily, though it still attracts the racist, intolerant … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Murdoch’s The Australian: Speaking UNtruth WITH Power

Pathetic and blatantly war-mongering, misleading Australian Editorial [with my comments bracketed in bold]: ‘A nuclear Iran is not an option’ | September 01, 2006 Unenforced deadlines make a mockery of … Continue reading

1 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Donor nations pledge $1b in aid for Lebanon

ABC Australia Last Update: Friday, September 1, 2006. 8:04am (AEST) Lebanese officials estimate the damage from the conflict is in the billions of dollars. (AFP) Donor nations have pledged $US940 … Continue reading

1 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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