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Is A World Wide Famine
In The Works?
By Thomas Riggins

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Jacques Diouf, who runs the UN Food and Agriculture organization has stated that there “is a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food” in the coming years. That doesn’t sound very good at all. Rosenthal, reporting from Rome, says his reason for announcing this is that because of “an ‘unforeseen and unprecedented’ shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels.”

Climate Change, National Security And Ethics
By Dr. John James

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Calculations show that dangerous levels of global warming cannot now be avoided. The life-style changes needed internationally are so wide-reaching that effective and immediate action is unlikely. As Australia is one of the few countries that can survive, we should prepare now for the inevitable. Ethical issues will distort our responses for years to come if we fail to address them now

Hydrocarbons And Funny Money
By Peter Goodchild

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One can say that the future will be one of diminishing fossil fuels, and hence diminishing gasoline, plastic, paint, asphalt, fertilizer, and electricity. Or one can say that it will be a period of stagflation: rising prices and falling wages — since rising oil prices “drag up” all other prices. Eventually faith in the dollar will collapse, and money will be replaced by barter

Oklahoma – Not The Musical Version
By Dave Eriqat

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I will say it plainly: I have zero respect for cops anymore and little respect for their laws, especially when I see that people with money are essentially above the law unless they screw up egregiously. I did not always have zero respect for cops. There was a time when I naively entertained becoming one myself. But observing their increasingly unsavory behavior, particularly since 9/11, has radically altered my view of them

Iraq: Who Are The Insurgents?
By Dahr Jamail

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“Suppose Iraq invaded America. And an Iraqi soldier was on a tank passing through an American street, waving his gun at the people, threatening them, raiding and trashing houses. Would you accept that? This is why no Iraqi can accept occupation, and don’t be surprised by their reactions,” says “The Imam,” a young man from a mixed Sunni-Shia family, as he explains the genesis of the insurgency in Iraq and its exponential growth

Iraq: Outsourcing The War
By Chris Gelken

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Corporate government leads to corporate war and leads to corporate abuse

Will The Year 2008 Be Different?
By Mirza A. Beg

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Let us make the year 2008 a watershed, when the 21st century emerges from the deathly clutches of the wars of the 20 th century to claim its much needed place to unfold an era of peace in the flow of time

Vanunu’s ‘Secret’
By Eileen Fleming

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Anyone who speaks with Vanunu for even a few minutes will understand that the ‘secret’ Vanunu has that can harm Israel is bad PR and the example of what happens to truth tellers when governments substitute paranoia for law

Resistance
By Gaither Stewart

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Resistance is real life as opposed to virtual life. Resistance is the precise opposite of acceptance of what society offers and the resulting retreat into comfort and ease, into the assurances that your lifestyle is the right one, that your way of life is the right way of life. Resistance is the rejection of Power’s version of life. It is rejection of wide-eyed acquiescence to Power’s lure

Free And Fair Elections In Pakistan: A Dream Or A Reality?
By Dhrubajyoti Bhattacharjee

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Those who were accepting the fact that Pakistan was going to experience a free and fair election, has woken up to the rude fact that in the forthcoming period too, Pakistan is going to witness one more tutored election fiasco. Though Musharraf has shed off his General’s uniform, but he still remains to be at the helm of affairs, more powerful than any of the two wings of democratic governance, the legislature as well as the judiciary, as he retains the power to maneuver elections according to his will, and has suppressed the judicial machinery to the maximum

Terror By Clerical Error
By Jawed Naqvi

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India’s top missile scientist unveiled plans last week to build a ballistic missile defence by 2010 that should effectively tackle the threat from Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Dr V.K. Saraswat was also quoted as saying that the proximity of Pakistan’s assets would give India just three to four minutes to respond to a perceived attack

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