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It is my prayer that nations will no longer send their young people to fight each other, not even in the name of peace. I do not accept the concept of a war for peace, a "just war," as I cannot accept the concept of "just slavery," "just hatred," or "just racism."

— Thich Nhat Hanh (1926- )

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Stuffed and Starved : The Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Raj Patel

Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, Thich Nhat Hanh

The Elegant Universe : Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory, Brian Greene

A Long Way Gone : Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah

Mountains Beyond Mountains : The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, Tracy Kidder

 
"Thus, whether it happens sooner or whether it happens later, a long-term stagnation, if not decline, in American living standards is inevitable. The cards have already been dealt. And the longer the governing class keeps the game going by bluffing and raising the ante, the larger will be the eventual loss... On our present path, the vast majority of Americans who must work for a living will end up competing with the rest of the world at least in part on the basis of price, that is, the price of their labor... As the Mexicans found out, there will always be someone in the world willing to work for less... Limiting the damage and reversing the downward spiral will require a sea change in the way the American economy has been managed over the last three decades. Building a political climate for that change must begin with a public discussion that makes clear the distinction between the interests of stateless transnational corporations on the one hand and the people whose economic fate is bounded by the nation on the other."
 
— Jeff Faux, The Global Class War : How America's Bipartisan Elite Lost Our Future -- and What It Will Take to Win It Back
 

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Stuffed and Starved : The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel (Paperback, 448 pages)
Categories: Economics, Food, Globalization

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War Made Easy : How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon (DVD, 73 minutes)
Categories: History, Media, Peace
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