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Category Archives: US Foreign Policy

Human Rights Council: Statement on the situation of human rights in the OPT

Second Session of the Human Rights Council Tuesday 26 September 2006, by John Dugard Selves and Others Read Full UN Report Here (.pdf, 22pp.) Political militants have rights, under both … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Dugard’s integrity

UN says Gaza crisis ‘intolerable’ :: BBC Also see Reuters article in Ha’aretz : UN human rights envoy says Gaza a prison for Palestinians ****Read original primary source report to … Continue reading

27 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The war machine and ‘conscientious ignorance’

I like Cindy’s use of Martin Luther King’s phrase “sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity” *** Victims of the war machine By Cindy Sheehan :: 25 Sept 2006 :: ICH Our … Continue reading

26 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cluster bombs in Lebanon: 20 000 cleared, 980 000 to go …

And the world will not forget that 90 percent of the cluster bomb shells were launched during the last 72 hours of the war — when an impending cessation of … Continue reading

26 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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