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Dirty Water Kills 4,000 Children a Day

by Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Sep 28 (IPS) – The statistics are mind-boggling: of the more than six billion people in the world today, over one billion have no access … Continue reading

7 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Cigars and sex ‘boost Cuba lives’

Perhaps its cigarettes bad, cigars good? :) AP / Jose Goitia Cuban Mercedes Martinez, left,72, and Josefa Gamet, 62 make money posing for photos for foreign tourists in Old Havana, … Continue reading

6 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Random observation about smoking

Why is it that smokers are often most easily found congregating — around No Smoking signs?

6 October, 2006 · 5 Comments

If America’s So Great, Where’s Our Health Care?

Also see Seth’s Sandronsky’s Counterpunch piece, The Cruel Economics of Health Care in America  Lack of health insurance kills six times as many Americans each year as 9/11 did. By … Continue reading

25 September, 2006 · 1 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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