The following essay from David Olive, columnist at the Toronto Star , starts with a quotation from John F. Kennedy, in a University of Washington address, November 1961, seven months after the U.S.-led Bay of... More »
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From The Economist, www.economist.com , September 22nd-28th, 2007, issue, Leaders section, pages 17-18, an article about the importance and necessity of preserving human rights and freedom at home during the "war on terror": Civil Liberties... More »
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Amnesty International and the Law Society of Canada have already complained to Canada about it not intervening in the case of the imprisonment of Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Prison. Now the UN has expressed its concerns... More »
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The event mentioned in the following article in the Toronto Star, Monday, December 3, 2007, Living Section, page L2, is a variation on the group meditation on peace event. Even if there is no measurable success by... More »
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Iraq Body Count, http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ , lists documented civilian deaths from violence in the range of 76,701 to 83,571. The United Nations refugee agency, http://www.unhcr.org/iraq.html , says the violence in Iraq forces 60,000 people a month... More »
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In his book, The Little Green Handbook , Ron Nielson lists "seven groups of critical global trends and events... that have four common features: 1. They are associated with a hastened deterioration of the environment... More »
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