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Voices across the divide: Rami Khouri

Journalists have a greater responsibility today than ever before. They can provide the vital combination of accuracy, rationality, balance and historical context that is needed to offset politicians Sunday August … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

The War has Backfired for Israel, and Its Old Lebanese Curse Keeps Getting Worse

Most citizens in Lebanon now back Hezbollah by Eric Margolis | Sunday, August 6, 2006 by the Toronto Sun (Canada) | reproduced at Common Dreams NEW YORK — Last week, … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Was the Atomic Bombing of Japan Necessary? (In a word, No) by Robert Freeman

Sunday, August 6, 2006 | CommonDreams.org Few issues in American history – perhaps only slavery itself – are as charged as the dropping of the atomic bombs on Japan. Was … Continue reading

7 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Lebanon rejects draft U.N. resolution By Lin Noueihed

Washington Post :: Sunday, August 6, 2006; 8:36 AM BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon rejects a draft U.N. Security Council resolution to end 26 days of fighting because it would allow … Continue reading

6 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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