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How the US fired Jack Straw By William Rees-Mogg

The Times 7 August 2006 The Foreign Secretary spoke his mind on the Middle East — and became a target in Washington. WHEN JACK STRAW was replaced by Margaret Beckett … Continue reading

8 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bid to try Blair for War Crimes: now Bush, Olmert, Howard, Harper to go …

Lebanon government joins forces with bid to have Blair tried in Scotland for war crimes By Neil Mackay | 6 Aug 2006 Sunday Herald THE Lebanese government is working behind … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Voices across the divide: Rami Khouri

Journalists have a greater responsibility today than ever before. They can provide the vital combination of accuracy, rationality, balance and historical context that is needed to offset politicians Sunday August … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel and the Art of Sophistry: What is ‘brave’ about giving back something you have stolen?

by John McCarthy | Sunday, August 6, 2006 | Independent/UK In Tony Blair’s speech in Los Angeles last Tuesday, he said he was sickened by what was happening in Lebanon … Continue reading

7 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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