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Blood Diamonds, Transparency and the Emerging Power of Global Citizen Action

by Alex Steffen | World Changing  Diamonds, like barrels of oil, are worth cash money everywhere, and, again like oil, the international trade in diamonds has destabilized whole regions and … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Circus tricks: who will succeed Kofi Annan?

The machinations at the UN over who will be Kofi Annan’s successor show exactly why the security council needs reform – and why it won’t happen Essay by Paul Kennedy … Continue reading

16 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Desmond Tutu: Arms trade is the new slave trade

Every year, small arms alone kill more people than the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki put together. Many more people are injured, terrorised or driven from their homes … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

The Other NAM Is the One to Watch

by Carolina Cositore | 13 September, 2006 | Z-Net For many people in the US say “NAM” and they automatically think Vietnam, the war the US lost through heroic battles … Continue reading

14 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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