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UK: MPs attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel

Richard Norton-Taylor :: Thursday August 3, 2006 :: The Guardian The government must explain why it continues to approve the sale of arms to Israel in apparent breach of its … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Israel’s cluster bombs and alleged phosphorus use have escaped attention

Mideast Weapons Deserve Scrutiny :: 2 Aug 2006 :: FAIR On July 24, Human Rights Watch reported that Israel was using cluster bombs “in populated areas of Lebanon,” which it … Continue reading

3 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Jan Egeland Quote

“There is something fundamentally wrong with a war where there are more dead children than armed men. That has to stop. There has been too much suffering in Lebanon, in … Continue reading

2 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Turning Lebanon into another Iraq

Green Left Weekly (Australia) August 2, 2006On July 23, defence minister Brendan Nelson announced that Canberra is willing to contribute armed Australian soldiers to a “robust” (meaning armed and prepared … Continue reading

1 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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