Nomadics

In its August issue, the French bi-weekly Courrier International prints a special section of responses to the war in Lebanon. Among them is the following piece by the poet Adonis, which he has kindly...

A few days ago Paul Hoover forwarded the following piece by Craig Murray from the latters excellent site. Given the level of deception our governments are willing to engage in, I think it is...

Here are a few photos taken by Nicole Peyrafitte (I’m useless with any visual capture apparatus) from walking (gently, not even hiking, as my mother, 83, was with us) about our favorite spot in...

For a series of stark photographs from inside the bombed houses of Lebanon, check out the following Italian site.

Spending time in the mountains beyond net-reach, so have to wait til I get back to town to read, check what’s going on, post, etc. Hope to put up some photos from the Pyrenean...

New and unkown deadly weapons used by Israeli forces ‘direct energy’ weapons, chemical and/or biological agents, in a macabre experiment of future warfare By Professor Paola Manduca August 7, 2006 By now there are...

August 10, 2006 Destruction, Death, and Drastic Measures *The Damage in Lebanon — and Beyond* The idea that you can solve social and political problems militarilyfrom the air is, on the face of it,...

125 years ago today, i.e. on 6 August 1881, Friedrich Nietzsche had, according to his own account, the instant of insight that changed his life and thinking into an absolute “before and after this...

French poet Bernard Noel just sent the essay below, which I translated, hopefully not too overhastily, as I thought it important to publish as quickly as possible. INCURSIONS In the latest France-Culture radio news...

* * *China suppresses dissident Tibetan poet’s weblogs: The Independent reports that the Chinese government has closed down the two weblogs of dissident Tibetan poet Woeser (also known as Oser and, in Chinese, Wei...