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Riviera vs Citadel: the battle for Lebanon

Nadim Shehadi | Open Democracy | 22 August 2006 The historic contest between two visions of what Lebanon is and should be will shape the country’s direction after Hizbollah’s war … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Restarting the 34 Day War

By Mike Whitney Information Clearing House 22 August 2006 “I prefer the most unfair peace to the most righteous war”- Cicero Israel is in a state of post-war trauma. Its … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Robert A. Pape: Dying to win: why suicide terrorists do it

Also see The terrorism theory Bush refuses to hear OpenDemocracy | 21 Aug 2006 An extract from Robert Pape’s comprehensive analysis of suicide terrorism. “Dying to win: why suicide terrorists … Continue reading

22 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Upbeat and full of promise: The New Arab World

Contrast with this view here by Alain Gresh that pessimistically foresees greater crisis and calamity in the region: ‘The Arab world’s silence has left the last word to those we … Continue reading

22 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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