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or "A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon it starts to add up to some real money."
President Bush announced on national television that he was asking the Congress to grant him an additional $87 billion dollars for the next fiscal year, beginning October 1, to continue the fight on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. But $87 billion is an impossibly high number for anyone to visualize. Let's have a look... Dave Faris (Crunchland.com) --
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Herbert Docena,
International Occupation Watch Center
Donors or Robbers? Donation or Domination? -- Iraq donors�� conference rocked by missing $4 billion scandal, angry street protest
Segye Times
Blueprint for a new Afghanistan -- (Korean / English)
Scott Ritter
Defining the resistance in Iraq - it's not foreign and it's well prepared ...
UN weapons inspector saw 'blueprints' for Monday's insurgency
Moonis Ahmar
Killing fields of Iraq - The writer is Professor, Department of International Relations, University of Karachi
Derrick Z. Jackson
America is More Divided Than Ever
James O. Goldsborough
Bringing an End to the Iraq Conflict
BBC
Drug crisis grips Baghdad -- Iraqi police want tougher sentences for drug dealers
A drugs epidemic and accompanying crime wave is sweeping Baghdad.
ReligiousTolerance.org
RELIGIOUS IDENTIFICATION IN THE U.S.
Christianity sinking; "none of the above" rising
Associated Press
Former Archbishop of Canterbury says gay bishop damage 'incalculable'
Mark Berniker
China feels sting of unwanted Afghan export
Greg Palast
Arnold's Enron Secret
Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
From triumph has sprung murderous fiasco. Ignoring Iraqis comes with a terrible price
Jonathan Paye-Layleh
U.N. force faces pillaged Liberia -- Taylor's fault? Who would have thunk?...
David Bamford
US 'offers Charles Taylor bounty' -- Tricky, Tricky, Wild-West-like...
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What is Institutionalised Terror?
Jonathan Barker
Questioning Terrorism Assessing Terrorism
excerpted from the book: The No-Nonsense guide to Terrorism
Tim Shorrock
The Big Guns -- Carlyle
HereinReality.com
The Axis of Corporate Evil
Historisists... Ain't that odd?
Warren Hedges
New Historicism Explained
Recently watched the movie "Lumumba" in an In-depth, Expository Writing, Project-Study class (High School). In our look back into History, this month; we consider that episode in the history of The Congo. For your own viewing experience, see:
Lumumba
David Akerman -- BBC
Who Killed Lumumba?
Africawithin.com
Patrice Lumumba
John Henrik Clarke
The Passing of Patrice Lumumba
Morpheus Reloaded
Beyond Children of the Atom: Black Politics, White Minds and the X-Men
Susan Sontag
The fragile alliance
Israeli-Palestinian Re-unification
BlackElectorate.com
Understanding Minister Farrakhan's Middle East and African Peace Mission
LaRouche
Israeli Moles Behind 911 And Iraq War
The Pollard Affair Never Ended
North and South Korean Re-unification
Ryu Jin
S. Korean Troops in Iraq Suspend Missions Outside Barracks
Seo Soo-min
Realists Winning Over Moderates in Troop Dispatch
Sim Sung-tae
Seoul may increase Iraq troops
Byun Duk-kun
Labor Strike Ends Peacefully -- More than 50,000 unionized
Yoo Dong-ho
Is Roh's High-Stakes Gamble Paying Off?
Shim Jae-yun
Seoul, Washington in Tug-of-War Over Troop Dispatch
For more recent news in this category, see
Early September Archives
African Re-unification
Cannibalism... Overheard a History teacher explaining, in passing, about the incidence of cannibalism in Africa; implying the inherent backwardness of the natives, and their good fortune that Europeans came and elevated the lot of Black Africa--albeit the elevation was not achieved without some pains.
For a long while I could not get the notion out of my mind that, the telling was loaded; and that the told were debilitated, somehow, by the telling--and by what was not told. Reminded of Chinua Achebe's ("Things Fall Apart") critique of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"--I could not toss the issue over my shoulder without doing a little research, in search of some means of balance.
Here are some resources, towards that sense of balance:
Chinua Achebe
An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness:
wikipedia.org
'Cannibalism' as cultural libel:
A skeptical reading of unsubstantiated reports of cannibalism may identify a disproportionate rate of cases of cannibalism among cultures that are already otherwise despised. The 'Blood libel' that accused Jews of eating Christian children is merely the most notorious example. In antiquity, Greek reports of anthropophagi were related to distant, non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in myth to the 'primitive' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olypian gods. In the modern world, such libels must be presented as 'reports' in order to be believed. In 1994, printed booklets reported that in a Yugoslavian concentration camp of Manjaca the Bosnian refugees were forced to eat each other's bodies. These reports await confirmation...
Carribean Amerindian Centerlink
CANNIBALISM: FACT, FICTION, OR MISUNDERSTOOD REALITY?
Fiebag and Fiebag
Depicting and Disputing Cannibals
James W. Loewen
Lies My Teacher Told Me:
... early Virginians engaged in bickering,
sloth, even cannibalism. (see: Thanksgiving)
Tim Wise
Projection (?)
Africa Action
US/Africa: Promises/Reality
For more recent news in this category, see
Early September Archives
Completed Testament
Good News / bad news
Frontlines / Spiritual-Physical Resurrection
American Clergy Leadership Conference
Exchanging the Cross for the Crown
CHRISTIAN LEADERS TO CARRY CROSS, THEN TAKE IT DOWN IN EFFORT FOR PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
Rev. Michael Jenkins
Special "Israel" Report / The Jerusalem Declaration
For more recent news in this category, see
Early September Archives
Frontlines / Sexual Identity
John M. Duvall
Choosing to Remain Sexually Pure
Serge Trifkovic
Islam's Love-Hate Relationship with Homosexuality
Answering Islam
Mut'a-- A temporary marriage for a stipulated amount of time. A Shi'ite belief, and generally not accepted by Sunni Muslims. There is a variant verse in the Qur'an which Shi'ites used to justify this practice.
al-shia.com -- Pro
Temporary Marriage in Islam (Part I)
A Plea from A Muslim Sister -- Con
Temporary Marriage
Answering Islam
"CHASTITY HOUSES"
Tantra-Yoga
The Yoga of Sex
Gihwa / Hamheo Deuktong
Drinking Alcohol / The Exposition of the Correct
For more recent news in this category, see
Early September Archives
Frontlines / Species-Race Identity
Rick Weiss
Cloning Yields Human-Rabbit Hybrid Embryo
For more recent news in this category, see
Early September Archives
Words of Wisdom -- Let it be...?
Peace in Corporate Life
Benjamin Zander
The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life
CNN: GLOBAL OFFICE
Maestro strikes a corporate chord
Zander is empowering both the business and music world.
RELATED
Benjamin Zander's Website
Gary L. McCann
LIVING OUTSIDE EDEN -- Zanders suggest that a better way to play the game is to see yourself as the board
Peace in Family Life
Buddhist Perspectives
Filial Piety
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