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Category Archives: Military-Industrial Complex

‘Europe and North America the Ikea of the arms industry’

Arms industry ‘flouting export laws’ By Kim Sengupta and Jerome Taylor Independent :: 03 October 2006   Weapons companies are using globalisation to routinely flout arms control laws and supply … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 3 Comments

Paul Kennedy’s Imperial Overstretch Revisited

Wide-ranging topic coverage in this interview with Paul Kennedy in Al-Ahram … includes commentary on Palestine and Israel, Egypt, Iraq and US Foreign Policy. I remember reading the broad-brush history … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

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

Uri Avnery: Muhammad’s Sword

Avnery does an admirable job of contributing to the much needed dialogue of civilisations wth this historical corrective, demolishing the myth that Islam sanctions the spread of the faith 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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