July 30, 2006
Stop Destroying Lebanon.
This is what war looks like. WARNING: Includes gruesome images of dead civilians. Baleboosteh has images from the Israeli side, mostly of military personnel.
As always, Noam Chomsky has some important points to make on the background to the current crisis, and -- while it deals with Gaza and not Lebanon per se -- this article by Jonathan Cook asks some urgent questions about which kidnappings get attention in the press and why.
In September of 1884, Robert and Joseph Miller, members of a Shaker sect in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, paused reflectively and through even breathing patterns were thus made calm. . . . there was something about them enjoying an evening breeze, but frankly that part may be a bit of exaggeration by later historians.