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7 Facts You Might Not Know About the Iraq War

By Michael Schwartz :: TomDispatch.com :: Sunday 20 August 2006    With a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Lebanon holding, the ever-hotter war in Iraq is once again creeping back onto newspaper … Continue reading

21 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Losing its Morals and Marbles: Israel’s Fight for Lebanon

Remi Kanazi, Electronic Lebanon, 19 August 2006 If Hezbollah were a military, given Western standards, it would certainly be the most moral in the world. During Israel’s five week offensive, … Continue reading

21 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Nader: The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith

Challenging the Vested Interests: The Legacy of John Kenneth Galbraith By RALPH NADER :: Counterpunch:: 19/ 20 August 2006 I first came across the name of John Kenneth Galbraith during … Continue reading

21 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon: Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Counterpunch :: 19-20 August, 2006 By STEPHEN FLEISCHMAN A self-fulfilling prophecy-as defined by Robert K. Merton, 20th Century sociologist who coined the phrase-is that a prediction, in being made, actually … Continue reading

21 August, 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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