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UN body criticises US on rights

BBC 28 July 2006 Help was slow in reaching many in New Orleans after Katrina The US should immediately shut all secret detention facilities used in its campaign against terror … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

“And still, it continues …”: Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana

various writing from Lebanon, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006 Today in the Lebanese village of Qana, over 54 civilians, including at least 34 children, were killed in Israel’s most … Continue reading

31 July, 2006 · Leave a comment

UN Peacekeeping in Lebanon: Global and Regional Challenges

From Lebanon Expats/ Moghtarebee Lubnan Viewpoints • Source: FPA Features • Author: Marco Vicenzino July 27th, 2006 Instead of discouraging the international community from contributing to a multinational force, the … Continue reading

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Security Council must condemn Israeli attack in the strongest possible terms, Annan says

Report, UN News, 30 July 2006 reproduced at Electronic Lebanon Kofi Annan Convening a meeting today of the Security Council, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said it must condemn last night’s Israeli … Continue reading

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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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