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We are living in an upside-down world where sane opinions are all but drowned amidst a deafening rhetoric of trade, profits and growth combined with warmongering, widespread human rights abuses, pollution of all kinds and environmental destruction on a massive scale. This page, insignificant though it be, is dedicated to all those who have worked and are working against this tide towards right ways of living and right ways of thinking, for humanity and for our troubled planet as a whole.
Satish Kumar, in the May/June 2004 issue of Resurgence magazine, reminds us of a famous anecdote: 'Mahatma Gandhi was asked by a journalist, "What do you think of western civilisation?" He replied, "It would be a good idea!"
Africa Action
Rich Countries Must End their Wrongful Debt Claims Against Africa.Dr. Mustafa Barghouti
The Israeli West Bank Wall. An explanation of why the building of this wall is unjust, including the problems it creates.Roar Bjonnes
Sweet Water And Bitter, A UN report claims that water, not oil, will be the next cause over which nations will go to war.Peter Bunyard
Climate Change, from: 'The Breakdown Of Climate'Noam Chomsky
Author of Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance, he also wrote the best seller, 9/11: Power and Terror, and dozens of other books. He is regarded as one of the leading dissidents and scholars in the United States. Dr. Martha Crouch
New superweeds and using crop plants for drugs. The former Professor of Biology at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana is interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Friday, May 6th, 2005. Here is part of the interview. (Rush Transcript). Reshad Feild
Conscious Breathing, from: 'Here To Heal'Zac Goldsmith
The Global Economy, from: 'Progress To Nowhere'Satish Kumar
Non-Violence, from: 'No Destination'The importance of Local Economy, from: 'No Destination'
Mark Lynas
Global Warming - coral reefs and rainforest, from: 'The Heat Is On'M. Scott Peck
Making Decisions, from: 'The Road Less Travelled'E.F. Schumacher
An Aspect of Modern Technology, from: 'Technology with a Human Face'Human-Scale Economics, from: 'Social and Economic Problems calling for the Development of Intermediate Technology'
Idries Shah
Ajmal Hussein and the Scholars, from: 'Wisdom of the Idiots'Nasrudin and the Wise Men, from: 'The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin'
Vandana Shiva
Globalisation and Poverty, from: 'Economic globalization has become a war against nature and the poor.'The Cost of the War in Iraq ?
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According to www.iraqbodycount.net civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq range from 27,000 to 30,000. An article published in The Lancet (vol 364 Nov. 20, 2004) speaks of more than 100,000 probable deaths: Mortality before and after the invasion of Iraq in 2003 (PDF file). Terrible hardship, injuries, and health problems accompany the Iraqi people. The amount of money spent by the US Government to finance the war in Iraq is shown above. For more details, visit www.costofwar.com. This does not include the enormous indirect and hidden costs of such a devastating invasion. Dahr Jamail has spent a total of 8 months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. "Weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to Iraq to report on the war himself."