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Congratulations Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize 2006

Great news and well deserved. Since I first started looking at microcredit as a means of poverty alleviation for my doctoral research, it has really taken the development world by … Continue reading

13 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

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

Noam Chomsky: Latin America Declares Independence

IHT :: 3 October 2006 :: First published in NY Times Five centuries after the European conquests, Latin America is reasserting its independence. In the southern cone especially, from Venezuela … Continue reading

3 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

Hugo Chavez’s New World Vision

by Stephen Lendman After agreeing to supply discounted oil to the richest city in Europe – London – to help its low income residents use the city’s buses at a … Continue reading

23 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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