Double Standards Home Page

Double Standard 1. a rule or principle applied more strictly to some people than to others (or to oneself). – The Concise Oxford English Dictionary.

GENERAL

Welcome!

Welcome to my site. I started to create it after the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington in order to make some sense of what is happening on our planet. If you believe that the attacks on the financial and military centers of the US were attacks on “our freedom and democracy” then I suggest that you go back to watching the Western television channels and reading the New York Times, for the information in the following links may disturb you.

If you feel that important information is being kept from you by the mass media, this web site is a good place to start to find out more about the reality of life on this planet. You can also see examples of the double standards prevalent in the philosophy pushed by Western mainstream media.

Dedication
This site is dedicated to those who have moral courage:
Barbara Lee, the only member of the US Congress to vote against the US war against Afghanistan, the Israeli reservists who refuse to serve in the occupied terrorities, and all those who are resisting the increasing tendency towards the rule of force instead of the rule of justice.

IN MEMORIAM
Rachel Corrie, 10 April 1979 - 16 March 2003, died defending the Palestinians from Israeli aggression.

Cost of the War in Iraq

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Cost of War Calculator

Have you ever wondered what the International community could achieve if funding for war was diverted to urgent humanitarian needs?
This eye opening cost calculator shows what could be bought instead of arms and military equipment.

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Latest Articles

Date added	Internal link unless marked
31 January 2008	Operation Desert Slaughter: Thoughts on Holocaust Memorial Day by Felicity Arbuthnot, 28 January 2008.
31 January 2008	The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis by Richard K. Moore, 27 December 2007.
31 January 2008	Britain has too many flaws to lecture about democracy by Simon Jenkins, 02 January 2008. “Hectoring phone calls from a post-imperial nanny won't help Kenya or Pakistan create stable and prosperous societies.”
16 January 2007	2008 presidential charade promises deepening of government criminality and expansion of war by Larry Chin, 10 January 2008. Part 1. [Topic: Democracy in the US]
16 January 2007	2008 election charade: White House bought by big money by Larry Chin, 15 January 2008. Part 2. [Topic: Democracy in the US]
29 December 2007	Capitalism is Good, the World is Flat by Brkic Sulejman, 27 December 2008.
29 December 2007	Fascist America, in 10 easy steps by Naomi Wolf, 24 April 2007. “From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all.”
29 December 2007	Latin America: The Downside of the GM Revolution by Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, 03 December 2007.
29 December 2007	Turkey: Another Ally Lost by Philip Giraldi, 18 December 2007.

See Recent Additions for a longer list of recently added articles.

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This site contains the following types of pages:

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Recent Additions (updated whenever a new article or link is added)
There are also Region and Country Section pages and pages for other subjects not limited to a particular region or country.
These Section pages link to articles, Topic pages and external websites. Most Section pages are sub-divided into Subsections, in which case there is a list of Subsections at the start of the Section page. There is a complete List of Sections at the top of this page.
An extensive Index of Sections and Subsections is also available.
Topic pages that link to articles and external websites relevant to a particular topic, and often include lengthy quotations from articles. A Index of Topics is available in the Index of Sections and Subsections.
Articles: Each article on this site normally includes a link to the Section(s) and Subsection(s) that link(s) to the article, and, if the author of an article has more than one article referred to on this site, a link to the author's entry in the (200K) List of Articles Arranged by Author.
An extensive (240K) site map is available showing all pages on this web site.
See also the List of Keywords.

If you are new to this site, please go to START for a list of important topics.

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I do not necessarily subscribe to all opinions expressed on external web pages, whether linked to or copied to this site, and am not responsible for their contents. This is a non-profit web site.

Copyright

Some pages on this site have been copied from other sites. In each case the original web page may be reached via a link at the end of the document.

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Thanks to

the Free Graphics Store for some graphics.
CoolArchive for some buttons.
Paul Lutus at Arachnoid for his HTML editor, Arachnophilia.
the W3C HTML validation service.
Tilman Hausherr for Xenu's Link Sleuth, a utility to check for broken links.
Jeff Glatt for his REXX software, Reginald and RexxEdit which I use extensively to maintain this web site.
Toby Dacre for the images and Javascript for calculating moon phases.
Erik Bosrup for the Javascript for popups on the world map.
John Fitzgibbon for his country flags.