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Discourse of the mean spirits: False mantras, euphemisms and naked hypocrisy by Paul de Rooij

Selves and Others Monday 14 August 2006 In the face of a major Israeli war of aggression against Lebanon many politicians and pundits have sought to justify the Israeli actions, … Continue reading

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Iranian leader launches blog aimed at international audience by Robert Tait in Tehran

Guardian Monday 14 August, 2006 The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Photograph: Elizabeth Dalziel/AP His political approach has become a byword for populism and yesterday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad endowed it with … Continue reading

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Nobody’s victory, but in the end Israel could not defeat Hizbollah | Peter Beaumont

The Observer 13 August, 2006 A month of fighting, more than 1,000 dead, upwards of 800,000 Lebanese displaced and $2bn worth of damage – for what? Who wins in this … Continue reading

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Beirut, modern jazz and the new Middle East By Nizar Ghanem

Common Ground News August 2006 There is a kind of beauty in jazz, a broken beauty, so-to-speak, contradictory in nature yet very complex. New things are discovered while listening to … Continue reading

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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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