Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- President, General, and all-around great American, Dwight D. Eisenhower

Sunday, January 18, 2009

Wow this is the first I've heard of this

BBC once again runs an excellent piece highlighting global abuses of human rights:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7834075.stm

Bounding refugees by the hands, and then setting them adrift? That is absolutely incredible, but all the more horrific since these people are political and religious refugees from a terribly repressive government.
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