| |
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), global military spending reached 1,118 billion dollars in 2005. A sad record, amounting to 173 dollars for each inhabitant of the planet.
The United States of America alone accounts for 48% of worldwide military spending, compared with 4% to 5% each for Great Britain, France, Japan and China. More
Appel à traduction
La guerre, plaît-il de le répéter à ses thuriféraires, se conjugue aux cris de panique, aux vies disparues, aux corps mitraillés, charcutés, explosés. Les survivants ont soif, faim. Plusieurs meurent à petit feu, sans soins, infectés, contaminés. La guerre n’est jamais propre. Mais l’équation se veut sans appel : cette fois ce sera la guerre pour se protéger du mal, celui de l’Autre. Un désir obsessionnel d’affirmer sa vérité, d’imposer une projection du monde à coups de butoir. Ainsi la voilà cette guerre, juste, sanctifiée, martelée de croyances, ornée de patriotisme mortifère. More
Canadians: below the 50 % mark
According to the results of a recent poll undertaken by a firm in Quebec, over half of Canadians cannot name any of the rights defined by the Canadian Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms. The population of British Colombia appears to be the least knowledgeable on this subject, 62 % of the population of this West Coast province were incapable of citing one right of the Charter, according to the survey conducted by Léger Marketing. Elsewhere, throughout the country, the following percentages were noted: Manitoba and Saskatchewan, 57 %; Quebec, 54 %; Ontario, 50 %; the Atlantic Provinces, 48 %; and Alberta, 44 %. In the whole of the country, the number registered was 52 %. Freedom of expression was cited by 27 % of those who took part. It was followed by freedom of opinion, freedom of religion and the right to speak one’s own language, at 12 %.More
