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A world helped by millions on the move

The Times | 7 September 2006 | Foreign Editor’s Briefing by Bronwen Maddox THIS year’s United Nations report on the State of World Population is astonishing — and refreshing — … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Joseph Stiglitz: Making globalisation work

Joseph Stiglitz writes in the Guardian | September 7, 2006: I have written repeatedly about the problems of globalisation: an unfair global trade regime that impedes development; an unstable global … Continue reading

7 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Rebuilding Lebanon

Democracy Now | Sept 5 2006 Three weeks after the ceasefire that ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah, residents in Lebanon are struggling to rebuild. Thousands of families … Continue reading

6 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

A downbeat view: Critics Decry “Destroy and Lend” Policy

By Emad Mekay WASHINGTON, Aug 31 (IPS) – Lebanon is firmly en route to becoming the third nation in the Middle East after Iraq and the Palestinian territories to experience … Continue reading

1 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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