... rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: • The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 people million live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. • Two thirds of world trade are controlled by multinational corporations. • The top five multinational corporatio...

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... 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war and war-related expenses as the number one item in global spending. Consider the following statistics: - The world spends one trillion dollars in armaments while 800 million people live in extremely bad poverty, 770 million people do not have food for an active working life, 100 million ... percent of the world's population while controlling 25% of the world's economic output. - Only one percent of all multinational corporations own one half of the global stock of foreign direct investments. - Two thirds of world trade...

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... to kill an enemy. It is no good quoting "Thou shalt not kill." There are two Greek words: the ordinary word to kill and to murder. When Christ quotes the commandment He uses the word to murder on all three accounts, Matthew, Mark, and Luke. And I am told there is the same distinction in Hebrew." Lewis concludes that not all killing is murder and that it ... in war killing is sometimes necessary to defeat injustice and tyranny. In a recent sermon from pastor Max Lucado he discussed the subject of scripture as it ... on earth. I believe this is the right thing to do. I believe the presid...

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... a guilty person, country, or religion upon which to wage it. Yet we struggle to find an enemy; we all struggle to find an enemy to rise against and crumble. We want to put an end to their cause, their existence. We possess the desire to take back everything they took from us and then some. However, in the end, we cry amidst the rubble and smoke ... , death and fear. We mourn at the tragedy and we cry without the justice that we believe we desperately need. In our current situation the question arises of whether or not we strike. Do we Bomb Afghanistan, bomb the Taliban, bomb countries th...

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... , financial and military support for Israel and other allies. In addition, the United States has been contradictory in how it enforces international law and resolutions by the United Nations. Americans rarely enforce law in an allied country because of the possibility of political backlash. For example, the USA is in a pickle because some of the countries it has backed in the past (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Morocco, Jordan, Israel, Palestine) are now ... ! "We thought we were safe!" they cry, "The world changed that day" the media proclaims and "The world has lost its innocence!" is br...

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... out of over 225 million people. Those who make $22, 000 a year are the exact middle, they make more than half the country, and make less than the other half. So only belligerent ignorance is to say that there are only a handful of "super-rich" people in the US and the rest live in impoverished squaller. Yes there would be some, but great opportunity is always there and ... of one and a half New York Cities) and it can only get worse (Lappe). All this happens yet we in the first world still cry for the Lindbergh baby. That is just children alone. For every woman in the third world, there...

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... , refugees, job seekers, and drug addicts. There are a number of common deceptions for luring these victims into sex trafficking, including: a promise of a good job in another country, a false marriage proposal turned into a bondage situation, being sold into the sex trade by parents, husbands, boyfriends and being kidnapped by traffickers. While it may seem as though victims are extremely vulnerable, powerless minorities, or all ... 's urine." The abuses escalated in the following days. She was tied up and covered with biting ants, whipped with an electric cable. Finally, she said yes. S...

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... to surrounding countries. This meant that Germans became part of the countries that the land was given to. The French had taken control of one of the richest parts of Germany, Saar. Saar was full of French soldiers and no Germans allowed in. Saar was home to the richest coal mine in the country .German soldiers where also banned form the Rhineland another rich industrial part of Germany. Germany's fishing ... waters were also restricted. All of the land Germany had taken over the years had to be given back ... . Germany were not allowed to join the league of nation which is like the Uni...

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... opposed Great Britain during the second World War, but in 1943 the British again cracked down on Jewish activity in Palestine in an effort to win back Arab support. With Hitler defeated, the British began to enforce the White Paper with much more vigor than they had during the war (Meir, A Land of Our Own 58-59). Jews in Palestine used the horrors of the Holocaust as a battle cry for a Jewish ... state. A Jewish homeland would assure that there would never be another Holocaust. During a meeting of Jewish leaders, Golda made the statement, "We have no alternative" (Noble 65). The Haganah ...

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... an actual face to face conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union (New World Encyclopedia). Do you think the policies of the United States were justified during the Cold War? The foreign policy of the United States during the Cold War had support due to the direct conflict of goals of the U.S. and how the spread of communism could prove dangerous for Americans. The primary goal of communist nations was to ... ). For example, Stalin already had a dominating influence over several countries because of setting up Soviet-controlled governments in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, Hunga...

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... Street stock market crash of 1929 precipitated the Great Depression; The worst economic downturn in the history of the nation. The depression had devastating effects on the country. The stock market was in shambles. Many banks couldn't continue to operate. Farmers fell into bankruptcy. A quarter of the working force or 13 million people were unemployed in 1932, and this was only the beginning (Encarta Encyclopedia). The depression lasted over a decade, with hundreds of thousands ... to send reparations from the defeated Germany to help rebuild the war-devastated Soviet Union. Kent State...

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... could not succeed. The League's sanctions did not work, as a country could just go to the United States if it needed something. The idea that the failure of the U.S. to enter the League was a terrible mistake that played a significant role in bringing about the Second World War became widely accepted in the U.S. Thus, the U.S. government strove for the creation of the League's successor, the United Nations. By October 1943, the governments of China, the Soviet Union, Great ... Britain, and the U.S. declared their firm intention ... ...

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... to get some profit, which was either in wealth or in political power. That was normal that they wanted to gain something for doing the job of the "peacemakers," but they managed to get lots of money for their job. They were trying to benefit their country while they dealt with other nations. Probably most of the money went to the army. But it was more important ... that they earned political help. This help earned the ... sure that nobody dies, but during this it tries to get as much profit as it can, the country cannot be called nonaligned. It is very sad that while the United States ...

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... intervention by armed forces into foreign issues needs re-evaluation. I do not agree with actions by our government in the past to intervene in foreign issues without providing the peacekeeping forces detailed mission parameters. To keep the peace, we sometimes have to fight. The incident in Mogadishu is an example; how are peacekeeping forces inserted into a foreign region to protect humanitarian aid supposed to ... had probably a well-intentioned idea of nation-building. However, it wound up becoming something that became a nightmare. And the reason why it became a nightmare was that,...

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... to get some profit, which was either in wealth or in political power. That was normal that they wanted to gain something for doing the job of the "peacemakers," but they managed to get lots of money for their job. They were trying to benefit their country while they dealt with other nations. Probably most of the money went to the army. But it was more important ... that they earned political help. This help earned the ... sure that nobody dies, but during this it tries to get as much profit as it can, the country cannot be called nonaligned. It is very sad that while the United States ...

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... . Today the UN plays a vital role in most world affairs. Following WWII however problems still arose. Both the United States and the Soviet Union came out of WWII as the "Superpowers" of the world. The Soviet Union tried to expand and spread communism while the United States practiced containment, constantly checking communist growth. The conflict in interest between the two nations was almost responsible for an Atomic war. WWII was a direct result ... of WWI and the events that followed because of it ... ...

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... take over other countries or start conflicts. In some situations they are able to stop the rebelling county, but not always. If the UN needs to send in some troops to "peace keeps," it doesn't have its own troops to send in. If troops are needed they must be volunteered from a participating country. Yet if the countries don't whole-heartedly believe in the cause, then why would they risk ... their men for it? Even if the security part of the UN is not perfect that is not the only thing that the United Nations has done for the world. One large organization developed form the UN is the Wo...

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... basic human rights are respected. They don't even have a chance to defend themselves in a fair hearing. What makes it worse it the fact that the children are detained for an indefinite period of time, some children may have spent most of their lives in detention. The conditions in these centers are horrible. The children witness things that even a mature mind would have problems dealing with on a daily ... basis. There is no full time education system, insufficient play and leisure time, limited if any contact with the outside world. There are many other restrictions placed upon these c...

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... problems. Between 1931 and 1935 there were many events which seriously damaged the aims and methods of the league. The failure of the disarmament conference in 1934, the 1931 invasion of Manchuria, the Stresa font in 1935 and the Hoare-Laval plan all seriously damaged the aims of the league. In 1931 Japan invaded Manchuria and took over the country. The league sent representatives by sea to investigate as they did not think it was ... important enough to rush. The league decided that the invasion was illegal but Japan ignored the league ... ...

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... " keeper? Should we ignore "hot spots"? What role should terrorism play in how we react? Is there a viable alternative to direct involvement, and, if so, what? Currently, the United States has stationed military forces in about 130 countries, fighting in some of them, peacekeeping in others and training foreign militaries in others. There are 155 combat battalions in the U.S. Army. Before October 2001, only 17 of these were deployed ... on active combat service, presumably in Kosovo and a few other hot spots. Today ... ...

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... has been in civil war for quit along time now. This war is still continuing up to date despite efforts by some African countries and the international communities trying to bring peace. This civil war in this country has led to poverty and hunger to many in this country. Despite this country experiencing civil war and instability, Somalia is one of the driest countries in the world. This ... is the major problem facing Somalia in this modern day People are really suffering and most ... are really dying because of hunger. Children are the most affected and they die every ... ...

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... from Afghan rebels. In the lat 1880's, after the signing of a major U.S.-Soviet arms-control agreement, after the U.S.S.R. removed its troops from Afghanistan, and after political changes led to some democratic reform in the U.S.S.R. and major democratic reforms in Eastern Europe, Cold War tensions began to ease. Through the decades U.S. and the Soviet Union each supplied arms and financial assistance to nations, in order to avoid direct military confrontation while working ... to gain strategic advantages. Such conflicts were called proxy wars because the rival financed and armed compe...

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... ? This question intrigues me because politicians argue about topics such as this everyday. I believe America has the responsibility to protect some nations, but I also believe that we may be getting involved in some situations that we should not be in. The U.S. seems to think they should be the only country to get involved, and that troubles me. Maybe we are just trying to be friendly to ... into war after the Pearl Harbor event. The Americans being so powerful, that in a way they were the hero's of the war. If the U.S. did not step in, would the war have the same outcome or the same vic...

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... as Palestine, while most Jews refer to it as Israel. Not until 1994, did the Pope of the Christian Catholic faith in Rome, recognize Israel as a legitimate state as outlined by the United Nations resolution that proclaimed Jews have the right to establish a state in some parts of the Holy Land. To maintain neutrality and fairness towards the three Holy Religions, and also not to offend any of ... Land, have fought each other for exclusive complete control of the Holy Land. "Out of those forty centuries of war, our century has seen some of the most savage fighting in the..." Holy Land.1 ...

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... the war with Iraq right here in Canada, many people are barely surviving in order to pay the ridiculous bills. Vivienne Nathan, the head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association says that even in the cleanest, most limited conflicts people die and people suffer. (NewScientist.com news service Nov. 12/2002) In any conflict there is the element of the suffering of the people in that country. In the ... ongoing U.S./Iraq war hunger and disease are threatening the lives ... capital, that should be going back to the people in health care and housing and using it to fund an un...

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