2.16.2005

Librarians for Peace

Librarians around the world have said NO to the Occupation in Iraq
and they signed the petition, STOP THE WAR NOW.
The website, Librarians for Peace, provides a record of librarians' opposition to war.
In his essay, "Pharisee Nation," (February 15, 2005) Father John Dear states:
Instead of practicing an authentic spirituality of compassion, nonviolence, love and peace, we as a collective people have become self-righteous, arrogant, powerful, murderous hypocrites who dominate and kill others in the name of God.


Books:
THE ABU GHRAIB INVESTIGATIONS
The Official Report of the
Independent Panel and Pentagon on the Shocking Prisoner Abuse in Iraq.
Edited by Steven Strasser.
Illustrated. 175 pp.
PublicAffairs. Paper, $14.

TORTURE AND TRUTH
America, Abu Ghraib,
and the War on Terror.
By Mark Danner.
Illustrated. 580 pp.
New York Review Books.
Paper, $19.95.