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Why Fisk is wrong about Lebanon

Mike Whitney responds to a short article by Fisk in The Independent that claims a civil war based on “sectarian hatred” is imminent. Many of the comments responding to the … Continue reading

29 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Colbert roasts O’Reilly, or, Colbert is a comic genius II

Colbert is rightly regarded as a comic genius and The Colbert Report is a comedic institution. Mickey Z thinks O’Reilly is also in character — interesting hypothesis … I saw … Continue reading

23 January, 2007 · 6 Comments

Ilan Pappe: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank

Palestine 2007: Genocide in Gaza, Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank By Ilan Pappe | Electronic Intifada | 11 Jan 2007 A general view of Har Homa settlement, built on … Continue reading

12 January, 2007 · Leave a comment

Israeli folly and More Olbermanns Please

Yep, coming after Seymour Hersh’s New Yorker article last April, the Sunday Times (London) has reported that the Likudniks plan to strike Iran (subsequently and unsurprisingly denied) and we also … Continue reading

8 January, 2007 · 5 Comments

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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