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Category Archives: Weapons

Ban the Bomblets

From the Australian Dateline program, an excellent segment on cluster bombs that aired in April this year, with a focus on Lebanon. Unexploded Israeli-launched bomblets continue to litter the Lebanese … Continue reading

30 August, 2007 · 10 Comments

CBC’s The Fifth Estate: The Lies That Led To War

A refreshingly honest and well-made 43 minute documentary from Canada’s CBC, notwithstanding the implicit acceptance of other official lines. This Fifth Estate installment looks at the lies that led to … Continue reading

23 August, 2007 · 1 Comment

The terror of depleted uranium (DU)

Depleted uranium as a direct result of US-UK-Israeli neocon policy is wreaking ruin over Iraq, infecting civilians and especially children and lowering their immunity to other diseases such as the … Continue reading

13 August, 2007 · Leave a comment

Civilians pay the price: US arms sales to the ME

ADDENDUM: A great flash animation by Mark Fiore on the topic at hand: with thanks to the wonderful David Baldinger The Bush administration has just recently announced plans for a … Continue reading

3 August, 2007 · 4 Comments

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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