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Prose · June 2026

I Dissent

Hon. Douglas Roche criticizes global spending imbalances and humanitarian harm from war. He condemns poverty perpetuation, environmental destruction, and nuclear weapons lies.

“I dissent from the wild disproportion of what the world spends on arms and what it spends on development. I dissent from the anti-humanitarian policies of war for peace. I dissent from the perpetuation of poverty through the greed of the rich. I dissent from the despoliation of the planet by short-sighted industrialism.

Most of all, I dissent from the fabric of lies spun by the proponents of nuclear weapons who would have us believe that these heinous instruments of mass murder make us safer.”

About this article

First published in Mondial, Vol. 9, Issue 1 (June 2026).

Mondial has been published in print twice a year since 2017 by Citizens for Global Solutions and World Federalist Movement – Canada.

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