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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

Language matters: Drop the War Metaphor

Five Years After 9/11: Drop the War Metaphor by George Lakoff and Evan Frisch | Common Dreams | 11 Sept 2006 Language matters, because it can determine how we think … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Turning Microwave Weapons on People: Coming to a Crowd Near You?

Official Touts Nonlethal Weapons for Use By Lolita C. Baldor The Associated Press in LA Times | Tuesday 12 September 2006 Air Force official says nonlethal weapons should be used … Continue reading

14 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

‘Non-violent protests in Palestine have become testing ground for experimental weapons’

Independent Media Centre :: 08 Sep 2006 17:01 GMT Every Friday for the past two years, the people in a number of Palestinian villages have engaged in weekly non-violent protests … Continue reading

13 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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