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Waging war costs US $2 billion … per week

US war costs since September 11 exceed $500bn Peter Walker Thursday September 28, 2006 Guardian Unlimited The Iraq war is currently costing US taxpayers around $2bn (£1.07bn) a week as … Continue reading

29 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hi-tech firm boycotts Israel over ‘war crimes’

Y-Net :: 27 September 2006 Belgian hi-tech company specializing in development consulting notifies manager of Israeli company seeking cooperation that ‘your country has conducted war crimes and is an apartheid … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Most Iraqis Favour Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show

Leaders’ Views Out of Step With Public SEE UNIV MARYLAND POLL REPORT HERE (.pdf, 22pp. opens in new window) By Amit R. Paley Washington Post Staff Writer 27 September 2006 … Continue reading

28 September, 2006 · 2 Comments

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

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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