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Mickey Z
Cool Observer
the Department of Homeland Security.
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
Arming the world at a theater near you
“I hope they kill each other ... too bad they both can’t lose.”
—Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger (on the U.S. arming both sides of the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s)
“Do not support dictators. Do not sell them weapons.”
—Nobel laureate Jose Ramos Horta, East Timorese peace negotiator
It’s not every day Amnesty International asks me to go see a Nic Cage movie. So, when I got their e-mail about “Lord of War,” I promptly caught a bargain matinee at my local multiplex. This is not a movie review but, by Hollywood standards, “Lord of War” rates R for radical...and I was pleased to witness a film about the governments and freelancers supplying the weapons that kill men, women, and children every minute of every day.
To read my complete article (with added links), please click here:
http://tinyurl.com/ac7h8
Related: I found an interesting action being staged, re: global arms trade. It’s a “million faces” petition and if you want to add your mug to the mix, click here: http://www.controlarms.org.
What I’m wondering is what concrete actions can we each undertake to take a stand against the death merchants who inundate the globe with weaponry?
As Kurt Vonnegut says:
“There is no reason good can’t triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the mafia.”
So, who wants to get made?
However, such revolutionary racketeers should remember something Noam Chomsky once said: “It is not unusual for those at the wrong end of the club to have a clearer picture of reality than those who wield it.”
With that in mind, I’d like to share the work of a web-friend, Ralph Borland:
http://ralphborland.net/art/s4s.html
Ralph’s work will be showing here in NYC at the MoMa:
SAFE: Design Takes On Risk
October 16, 2005–January 2, 2006
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/2005/safe.html
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And finally...from the “stand-up comic’s wet dream” department, comes this:
US doctors prepare for first human face transplant
http://tinyurl.com/8ol4t
(insert Michael Jackson punch line here)
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