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Lebanon: Unexploded bombs hamper rural recovery

IRIN, 5 September 2006 RAS AL-AIN/ TYRE – Now that war is over, farmers are returning to their land in southern Lebanon only to find their crops destroyed and their … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Jonathan Cook takes Robert Fisk to task

Counterpunch 5 September, 2006 Will Robert Fisk tell us the whole story? Time For a Champion of Truth to Speak Up By Jonathan Cook Nazareth. More than a little uncomfortably, … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel blockade on Lebanon prevents oil spill clean-up

by Salim Yassine Mon Sep 4, 12:49 PM ET BEIRUT (AFP) – The Israeli blockade on Lebanon is preventing the widescale intervention needed to clean a massive oil slick caused … Continue reading

5 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

Perhaps the UN General Assembly could try this approach? :)

… substituting individual actions, of course, for nations …. “In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the centre of … Continue reading

4 September, 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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