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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

Defining terror: rest of the world want ‘real-world’ definition

**Also see Non-Aligned Against NeoLiberalism ** Nonaligned want terrorism redefined By VANESSA ARRINGTON, Associated Press Writer Tue Sep 12, 3:48 PM ET AP Photo: Cuba’s Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque … Continue reading

13 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Jordan King: Palestinian state must be a priority

Jordan king predicts ‘bleak’ Mideast Mon Sep 11, 12:01 PM ET AMMAN (AFP) – Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned of a “bleak future” of violence in the Middle East … Continue reading

12 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Bad Democracy Award

I’ve just discovered that openDemocracy actually conducts a monthly ‘Bad Democracy’ poll. It is, naturally, democratically determined by reader polling. I happen to think we don’t look enough at successes, … Continue reading

7 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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