I listened to BBC this evening coming from work, the movie is interesting, made like documentary “kind of real”, but touchy and sad. It shows the true and brutal reality of an ugly war.
War turns humans to animals and animals to beasts and beasts to monsters. An unconditional support of soldiers and giving them the [...]

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Noam Chomsky : Cold War II 
These are exciting days in Washington, as the government directs its energies to the demanding task of “containing Iran” in what Washington Post correspondent Robin Wright, joining others, calls “Cold War II.”[1]
During Cold War I, the task was to contain two awesome forces.  The lesser [...]

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Defusing Nuclear Hysteria
Charles Peña
Even as the International Atomic Energy Agency is meeting with Iranian officials to discuss increasing the openness of Iran’s nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remains defiant about Tehran’s right to pursue such a program – including uranium enrichment, which would give Iran a de facto nuclear weapon capability.
This raises the specter [...]

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World facing ‘arsenic timebomb’
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Farmer. Image: AFP
About 50 million people are affected in Bangladesh
About 140 million people, mainly in developing countries, are being poisoned by arsenic in their drinking water, researchers believe.
Speaking at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) annual meeting in London, scientists said this will lead to higher rates [...]

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