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Thomas Nash: It’s time to outlaw these ruthless killers

Published: 18 September 2006 :: Independent :: **See also previously posted article Deadly harvest: Lebanese fields sown with cluster bombs** I was in Lebanon in July 2005 on a trip … Continue reading

20 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Sustainability, not Terrorism, Should Be Our Real Security Focus

By Alex Steffen | WorldChanging Aug 2006 The Second Superpower – Cooperation, Politics and Activism What really threatens us? How do we truly make ourselves safer? The Cato Institute (a … Continue reading

18 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

George Galloway: Global popular power

The struggle for justice and prosperity in the Arab world and everywhere depends upon popular resistance to US imperialism and its local clients. By George Galloway | Al-Ahram | 14 … Continue reading

17 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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