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Rules of conduct in western media on I-P

Anon. – forwarded by a friend — if anyone might know to whom I may acknowledge as the author of this, drop me a line. BTW, we know that most … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Siege of Beirut and Hezbollah Backgrounder

Both these pieces are from Australia’s Dateline on SBS, well worth either watching the clips and/or reading the transcripts; links as follows. The Siege of Beirut (broadcast 23 Aug 2006) … Continue reading

24 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Grieving Relatives of Qana Massacre Emerge From the Rubble to Bury Their Dead

Democracy Now | Tuesday, 22nd August, 2006 Residents in southern Lebanon emerged from shelters over the weekend for a grim task: to bury their dead. The largest funeral took place … Continue reading

23 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN warns of ‘security vacuum’ in Lebanon *

The Age | 23 August, 2006 It could take three months to fill the post-war “security vacuum” in southern Lebanon and even unintended breaches of the truce could reignite fighting … Continue reading

23 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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