South Tynesde Coalition held a forum on the costs of these wars in February 15th 2006. In the preface to the pamphlet based on the forum we pointed out that "the costs of this and other wars were incalculable and have profound and the most serious consequences for the world and to what makes us human. The forum exposed not only the huge cost in human life, the most terrrible injuries which have occurred but the consequences that are throwing the world back into a medieval anarchy."
"This was a world in which a minority of big power governments and the transnational corporation they represent were destroying human rights, destroying conflict resolving international
institutions and tearing up International Law and replacing it with the law of force, imprisonment without trial and the torture chamber of medieval times. This was a world where the big powers
manipulate the UN and other bodies fabricating any excuse to exert control and make war against which ever country they wish to annex. In this way the US is threatening Iran, Syria, DPRK, Venezuela and many other countries, whilst Britain also had its eyes fixed on
Africa."
"The forum put these powers in the dock for flouting international law and all its terrible consequences, a cost of war that will lead to world war. The forum took up many of the aspects of the costs of war and enabled people to join in discussion on the topics and we publish
those contributions that have been made available to us. The call of the times is to facilitate our discussions to think and act like human beings and to take the high road of civilisation, to uphold
the interests of all people for new societies in which they decide and a new world where wars are a relic of the past."
Another World Is Possible! We Will Create It!"
