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Despair at UN over new Sec-Gen

Despair at UN over selection of ‘faceless’ Ban Ki-moon as general secretary · Officials ‘glum’ over choice to succeed Kofi Annan · Staff believe US pushed for weakest candidate Ewen … Continue reading

7 October, 2006 · Leave a comment

John Dugard: Despite the ‘withdrawal’, the siege of Gaza goes on

Independent :: Published: 05 October 2006 Excerpt In short, the people of Gaza have been subjected to collective punishment in clear violation of article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. For … Continue reading

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Appeals Grow For Comprehensive Mideast Settlement

See appeal statement: Global Leaders Call for Action on Arab-Israeli Settlement by Jim Lobe :: InterPress Service :: October 7, 2006 Amid signs that the administration of President George W. … Continue reading

7 October, 2006 · 2 Comments

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

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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