IRAN NEXT, THEN WHO?

George Bush's apparent desire to create a state of perpetual war spells disaster according to Gore Vidal:

"Symbolically, it's interesting that regions of the US are rejecting Darwin and evolution. I can see why. We have a substantial minority in the US that hasn't advanced much beyond the baboon. These ignorant folk are full of hatred, which is why they are currently rejecting evolution and going back to the stone age with torture, killing innocent people, attacking countries that have done us no harm. This is insupportable."

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Or take a look at Two World Forums, Two Visions by Pratap Chatterjee, for CorpWatch:

"The debate over the effects of globalization has long been won by its critics, with the overwhelming weight of the evidence correlating free market policies with increasing inequality both within and among countries" says Walden Bello, the executive director of Focus. Bello holds up the growing number of people affected by poverty and the current trend towards weak, unsustainable growth as examples of this debate. But, like many activists, he knows that debate is not always enough. "Like the proverbial dead hand of the engineer on the throttle of a speeding train," he continues, "neo-liberal policies continue to reign in most developing countries."

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