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UN to hold special session over Israel’s alleged human rights violations

Defensive wording … “alleged”, “likely to hear denunciations” By Haaretz Service and Reuters The UN Human Rights Council will hold a special session this week to examine allegations of rights … Continue reading

9 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Crocodile tears of leaders as city burns By Robert Fisk

The Independent 8 August 2006  Shortly after 4am, the fly-like buzz of an Israeli drone came out of the sky over my home. Coded MK by the manufacturers, Lebanese mothers … Continue reading

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Former President of Morgan Stanley Int’l: “It’s Now Considered the American War Against the Arabs…It Will Take Us Decades to Recover from What We’ve Done”

Democracy Now Tuesday, August 8th, 2006 Calling Israel’s war in Lebanon a “catastrophe,” the former president of Morgan Stanley International talks about the democrats’ “huge mistake” in backing the Bush … Continue reading

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Saving Face, Not Lives By Ian Williams

TomPaine August 08, 2006Ian Williams is the author of  Deserter, a look at Bush’s military career. He has been covering the U.N. and the Middle East for publications around the … Continue reading

9 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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