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In India we're fighting to retain a wilderness that we have. Whereas in the west, it's gone. Every person that's walking down the street is a walking ...more

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When, as happened recently in France, an attempt is made to coerce women out of the burqa rather than creating a situation in which a woman can choose...more

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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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Somewhere along the way, Capitalism reduced the idea of justice to mean just "human rights," and the idea of dreaming of equality became blasphemous. ...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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We ought not to speak only about the economics of globalization, but about the psychology of globalization. It's like the psychology of a battered wom...more

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As for the third Official Reason: exposing Western Hypocrisy - how much more exposed can they be? Which decent human being on earth harbors any illusi...more

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At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build ...more

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[Internationa] Aid is just another praetorian business enterprise.

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It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our liv...more

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The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war, or a remote rural war or even an exclusively Indian war. Its a war for the rivers a...more

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Certainly no beast has essayed the boundless, infinitely inventive art of human hatred. No beast can match its range and power.

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They sensed somehow that she lived in the prenumbral shadows between two worlds, just beyond the grasp of their power. That a woman that they had alre...more