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The Trade Trap (Poverty and the Global Commodity Markets) by Belinda Coote, Oxfam Publications, U.K. 1992 paperback, obtainable through Bridgehead in Ottawa. This is an up-to-date, comprehensive exposition of the stranglehold that the first-world trading blocs exert on the third-world producers of primary commodities, such as coffee, sugar and cotton.. These producers are urged to … Read more Short Reviews
People who teach in areas related to politics, ethics and defence policy may be interested to know of a computer program that is available for public domain use from a VAX mainframe. This interactive program is a simulation of nuclear missile (ICBM) launch procedures. It is written in Pascal, and includes a timer program to … Read more Ethical Decision Making: Computer Demonstration on Nuclear Weapons Launching
Pet Cleto is with the Philippine Solidarity Group.
I happened to hear a comment from a Canadian discussant in a TV broadcast recently, to the effect that he was delighted the US military budget was to be reduced. For next year it is to be $261 billion, several percent less than it was, but only about a billion less than President Clinton asked … Read more The US Military Budget for 1994
During the Afghan War the Americans delivered a thousand Stinger Rockets with a value of 25 million dollars to the anti-communist Mujaheddin fighters.Now their secret service is trying to buy back the ones that still remain – because of their fear of international terrorists who could use them to carry out attacks on commercial flights. … Read more Boomerangs
The Chinese People’s Association for Peace and Disarmament is a national non-governmental organization for peace sponsored by people’s organization and prominent public figures from various nationalities and sectors in China. It was established in 1985 with 24 affiliated social bodies. The Association aims at working together with the people of the world to strive for … Read more Chinese People's Association for Peace and Disarmament
EXECUTIVE: Chair: C.C. (Kelly) Gotlieb Secretary: Ken Burkhardt Treasurer: Eric Fawcett Research Director: Craig Summers Members-at large: Colin Soskolne, Jim Prentice PURPOSE: To promote the adoption of ethical codes and guidelines in scientific, engineering, and other societies, and to encourage mechanisms to make them effective in practice. CO-SPONSORS: Scientific and professional societies will be invited … Read more Working Group on Ethical Considerations in Scholarship and Science
Not that it is not enough – to remember; it is too much. The family picnics in Normandy many years after the first Great War when we remembered sitting around craters – shell holes – yes, they hadn’t filled them in but the mud had turned into grass with time. The Menin Gate at Ypres … Read more Remembrance Day
Ottawa: 26 Oct. 1993. Three new members have been appointed to the Federal environmental assessment panel, which was set up in 1986 to review military flying activities in Labrador and Quebec. In 1990 the panel completed its review of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) submitted by the Department of National Defence and issued a deficiency … Read more Disarmament and Military News
We deeply regret to announce the death of Wilson Head, emeritus professor of Sociology at York University, and throughout his long life a fighter for racial equality and justice. Wilson Head was a highly valued member of Science for Peace, and more than once a member of the Toronto Chapter executive. We shall miss his … Read more In Fond Memory: Wilson Head