in this issue:
"Resource Wars "

Editorial Note

Preparing Christians for war
by Mark Harris

As we went to press

Update

Blessings now, because ‘it’s the right thing to do’
An interview with William Smalley
by Katie Sherrod

Seven RC women ordained on Danube
by Georgia E. Fuller

Anglicans look to ‘develop’ new world
by Ethan Flad

Louie’s Index

Commentaries

The refugee crisis rages in Europe
by Peter Selby

What’s the main point, anyway?
by L. William Countryman

INTIFADA INCANTATION: POEM 38 FOR b.b.L.
by June Jordan

Hope and outrage: Will death penalty reforms foreshadow abolition?
by Joseph Wakelee-Lynch

Like water and oil?
by Susi Moser

Renouncing sins against the corporate faith
by Norman Solomon

Building a network, not an empire
by Kevin Jones

FOCUS: Resource Wars

The merging of the war against terrorism and the war for oil
An interview with Michael Klare Spanish language version here.
by Jane Slaughter

Resisting exploitation in the Solomon Islands
An interview with Ian Aujare (Zazao Environmental Rights Organization)
by Cristina Verán

Brazil's landless movement: sign of hope

Preparing for ‘the end of the hydrocarbon age’
by Colleen O’Connor

Celebrating Earth Ministries
by Carla Valentine Pryne

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