Earth Invasion 30.4

20 September, 2004
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Editorial: Hell on Earth

“War is hell.” That terse summary is one common human response to military conflict. We use the word hell to describe a state of agony and anguish, a condition where the ordinary rhythms of human life are horribly suspended. But hell is also depicted as a place. It happens not just to us, but around us. War degrades whole ecosystems, destroying not just homes and livelihoods, which can someday be replaced, but also irreplaceable cultural traditions and artifacts, unique habitats, and the genetic lines of the millions of individual animals killed. ...

Editorial: Hell on Earth

Dams, Guns and Refugees
Peter Penz
Irresponsible development and environmental conflicts displace rural people, especially when the tensions lead to violence.
Arab Marshland Water Rises with Hussein’s Fall Christina Rehbein

Double Speak
Sarah Estabrooks
Despite the talk of disarmament, the US is developing new nuclear weapons.
The World’s Nuclear Arsenals

Canada’s Military Landscape
Alternatives interviews Ginger Stones, the Department of National Defence’s Director General Environment.

Echoes of Distant Wars
Perin Ruttonsha

War and Weapons Funded by Canada Pension Plan
Tara Flynn

Building a Bomb
Kasia Kaluzny

Corporate Invasion Public Citizen
with Dahr Jamail
Neither the spirit nor the letter of their contract holds water in Bechtel’s lucrative reconstruction deal in Iraq.

World Insecurity Map
Armed conflict, resolutions, peace missions, and sources of peacekeeping spending.

Pillage and Plunder
Michael Renner

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