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Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

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Have we raised the threshold of horror so high that nothing short of a nuclear strike qualifies as a 'real' war? Are we to spend the rest of our lives...more

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Do we need weapons to fight wars? Or do we need wars to create markets for weapons?

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Capitalism is destroying the planet. The two old tricks that dug it out of past crises--War and Shopping--simply will not work.

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And a strange, deadly war is raging around the world. Yet, each person who has lost a loved one surely knows secretly, deeply, that no war, no act of ...more

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DB: There's a lot of talk about terrorism. In fact, it's become almost an obsession for the media in the United States. But it's a very narrow definit...more

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If you think of the world as a global village, a fight between India and Pakistan is like a fight between the poorest people in the poorest quarters -...more

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The policies the US government is following are dangerous for its citizens. It's true that you can bomb or buy out anybody that you want to, but you c...more

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The only dream worth having, I told her, is to dream that you will live while you're alive and die only when you're dead.

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To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around y...more

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The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beas...more

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It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of ...more

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But when they made love he was offended by her eyes. They behaved as though they belonged to someone else. Someone watching. Looking out of the window...more

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There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.

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Even in the most uneventful of our lives, we are called upon to choose our battles...