Peace &
nonviolence
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Remembering
Martin Luther King Jr. - short
biography
The Christian Science Monitor's "Notebook" on Dr. King
(Jan 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
Brief timeline of the civil
rights movement
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Manifesto
2000 for a Culture of Peace and
Non-Violence
The Manifesto 2000 for a Culture of Peace and
Non-Violence was written by the Nobel Prize Peace
Laureats, in order to create a sense of responsibility
starting on a personal level; it is not an appeal or
petition addressed to a higher authority. It is the
responsibilty of each and every individual to put into
practice the values, attitudes and forms of behaviour
which inspire the culture of peace. YOU can sign here!
Other UNESCO
links to culture of
peace...
Civilization
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Who
rules? Where America stands among world
empires
America at the end of the 20th century often has been
compared to Great Britain at the end of the 19th. But
does that mean a nation that had long ruled much of the
globe - or one that would soon lose its colonial
stature?
Armament and the new
Cold War
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Vladimir
Putin and Russia's further upgrading of nuclear
weapons
A new national security strategy decreed by the acting
president, Vladimir Putin, on Monday and to be published
today marks a radical shift in Russia's view of the
world. It ushers in a policy of "expanded nuclear
containment" while pledging to resist western attempts to
dominate the globe.
• Star
Wars shield threatens arms control
treaties
The US conducted a crucial test on Jan. 18 of
an antimissile defense system that, if deployed, could
jeopardize two of the world's most significant
arms-control agreements. But while a hit may answer some
of the technological questions surrounding missile
defense, it will do little to assuage concerns of two of
the program's loudest critics: Russia and China. And see
what Geroge Bush Jr. is up to in The
Guardian's version.
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The
test failed, but...
The $100m experiment was meant to show how missile
interceptors could destroy warheads as they sped towards
the US. Had the missile successfully blasted the incoming
warhead out of the sky it would also have provided vital
ammunition for defence chiefs. The Pentagon plans to ask
Congress to approve an additional $2.2bn in spending on
the missile defence plan, pushing the planned cost to at
least $12.7bn in the years ahead. And there is the
devastating analysis by Counterpunch:
How Pentagon Fixed the Star War test...
Conflict-resolution -
Burundi
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Mandela
slams Burundian
politicians
Why do you allow yourselves to be regarded as leaders
without talent, without vision?
Nelson Mandela, the former president squarely blamed
Burundi's politicians for failing to show the talent and
vision needed to end the brutal civil war that has cost
some 200,000 lives in the last six years. "Please join
the modern world. Why do you allow yourselves to be
regarded as leaders without talent, leaders without
vision?" he asked.
Globalisation
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Global
agenda
After the WTO Protest in
Seattle, It's Time to Go on the Offensive. Here's How. By
William greider, The Nation - author or the already
classical study on globalization, "One World. Ready or
Not."
Militarism versus
development
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Brazil's
life without the bomb
In 1990, Brazil took the decision to quit the arms race
and to help make Latin America a nuclear weapons-free
zone. Since then, there has been an extraordinary
turnaround. The arms race has been renewed and other
nations are desperate to join the nuclear club. "We
believe that it's important for us to be a democratic
country not based on nuclear weapons, says its
President."
What was the truth
then? Today?
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US
and South Korea accused of war atrocities
South Korean troops attacked the North a year before the
Korean war broke out, researchers have claimed in the
latest disturbing revelation about the conflict which
almost led to global war. It took fifty years to get
these atrocities documented. Imagine there are atrocities
committed today by powerful nations about which the truth
will only be revealed much later...
Global
environment
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Doom
and gloom over the global environment
From eroding soil in Kazakhstan to melting glaciers in
the Peruvian Andes to depleted fisheries off New England
and elsewhere, the world's ecological health at the dawn
of the millennium is deteriorating, the Worldwatch
Institute concluded in its annual State of the World
report, which was released on January 16, 2000.
WIRE Editor
Jan Oberg with TFF
Associates
