[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:7650] Canberra Times: A War on Terrorism v. A War on Poverty <fwd>

[Al Kagan]

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>Subject: [SRRTAC-L:7650] Canberra Times:  A War on Terrorism v. A 
>War on Poverty <fwd>
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>Canberra Times                      Friday February 8, 2002
>
>A different perspective
>
>      By Robert Macklin
>
>AUSTRALIA'S toll in the World Trade Centre tragedy has fallen markedly
>from
>the 96 estimated killed in those first terrible days. On his visit to
>New
>York last week Prime Minister John Howard revealed that there were 17
>Australian casualties. And the total deaths, once thought to be in the
>tens
>of thousands, has now fallen to below 3000.
>To the families affected such numbers are meaningless. But politicians
>have
>not been beyond using them to their advantage. So the New
>Internationalist
>magazine has just published some figures to provide a different
>perspective.
>
>On that same September 11, it reveals:
>24,000 people died of hunger,
>6020 children were killed by diarrhea,
>2700 children were killed by measles,
>1411 women died in childbirth
>3288 children were made homeless by war.
>Time for a war on poverty perhaps?
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