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The Anti-American Century? ‘Why They Hate Us’ By Julia E. Sweig

Los Angeles Times Tuesday 15 August 2006 No, it’s not our freedoms. Anti-Americanism isn’t going away until the US puts some fairness in its foreign policy. America’s moral standing in … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Withdrawing doesn’t work’: the distorted logic of Netanyahu and his ilk

It always bemuses me how wanton distortion of causality works. It recalls the famous remark from Francis Bacon, recalling Aesop: It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Examining Iran’s Ties to Hezbollah By William O. Beeman

In These Times Tuesday 15 August 2006 Just how much influence does the Islamic Republic wield over Hezbollah? The conflict in Lebanon between Israel and Hezbollah had hardly begun when … Continue reading

16 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Corporate war machine gathers speed By Ismael Hossein-zadeh

Asia Times 15 August 2006 There is strong evidence that as the Bush administration is mulling over plans to bomb Iran, the simmering conflict between high-ranking military professionals and militaristic … Continue reading

15 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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