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JUNE — JULY 2003 @ REVIEWS ical keys to knowledge of solar physics and _in every hotspot at once. It's the story of a B oO oO K Ss cycles as well as of God, time and the after- mass protest movement (300,000 people . life. Intriguingly, he found similarities with turned out for the July 21 march) against the Reviewed by Ruth Parnell astronomical and numerical keys decoded forces that favour so-called "free" trade over THE TERRACOTTA WARRIORS: The from the ancient Mayan, Egyptian and "fair" trade at all cost—and the police who Secret Codes of the Emperor’s Army Peruvian artefacts—ones relating to Pacal do their bidding (though the truth has since by Maurice Cotterell Votan, Tutankhamun and Viracocha and come out, damning police overkill against Headline Book Publishing, UK, 2003 thus begging the question of whether protesters). But it's also Neale's personal SBN 0-7472-7132-1 (298pp he) Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi was an equal story with hands-on, in-your-face involve- Availability: Headline, website among these ancient culture-heroes. ment, real people and political commentary. http:/Avww ‘headline co uk Cotterell has written extensively on these _ To put the protests into context, Neale http:/Avww.hodderheadline com "supergods" in his previous four books, and _intersperses his narrative with chapters / ; . gives a summary of those analyses in the focusing on: poverty and aid (he lived in lhe world was awestruck at the discovery of a life-sized terracotta army of sol- diers, horses and chariots unearthed near Xiyang village in Lintong province, China, appendices of The Terracotta Warriors. He _ India as a teenager); AIDS in Africa; "Star presents his latest findings in the context of | Wars" and global warming; Middle East oil, Chinese history, philosophy and mythology, dictatorship and war; and the new corporate : : making this a richly rewarding read. order that's strangling workers and farmers ine ms Tey were buried a few the world over. He also reflects on the fail- ilometres from the huge pyramid-shape YOU ARE G8, WE ARE 6 BILLION: ures of communism and the weaknesses and earthen mound—the legendary burial place . f : of Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Emperor of a The Truth Behind the Genoa Protests strengths of today's anti-war movement, unified China who initiated the prosperous by Jonathan Neale while encouraging more people to make a yet short-lived Ch'in Dynasty, ruling from Vision Paperbacks, UK, 2002 “ant for a better vith a pauitabie future. 221 to his death in210 BC. But why were —_ ISBN 1-904132-13-8 (274pp tpb) amenging, yet WIEN a Roper’ vision. 8,099 life-sized terracotta warriors, each Availability: Vision Paperbacks, website , weighing over half a tonne, buried there at http:/Awww. visionpaperbacks.co.uk Jl 4 all? To guard the emperor in the afterlife? ll too often the corporate media portray J Engineer/scientist Maurice Cotterell, hav- anti-globalisation protests and protesters ing decoded secrets embodied in Mayan, in a savage light, without providing much Egyptian and Peruvian artefacts, wondered analysis as to why the protests are taking whether esoteric secrets had been encoded in _ place. Since the watershed Seattle protests You Are GB these terracotta artefacts—and sure enough, —_ against the World Trade Organization in We Are 6 Billi the more he looked the more he found. 1999, there have been many more mass ears en While archaeologists had already deter- demonstrations aimed at this and other elitist seheeneen aanaanahicnne mined that the shape of the warriors' heads, structures including the World Economic faces and hairstyles corresponded to 10 Forum and the G8 industrial nations. shapes of the 10,516-character Chinese Seasoned UK socialist activist, union alphabet, Cotterell took the research further —_ organiser, protester and writer Jonathan by analysing what the characters stood for Neale was involved in organising the rallies and decoding a hidden message. In the and marches in Genoa, Italy, against the G8 placements of the warriors and the design of — meeting in July 2001, and this is his take on the pits housing them, he discovered numer- _ what went down, considering he couldn't be in every hotspot at once. It's the story of a mass protest movement (300,000 people turned out for the July 21 march) against the forces that favour so-called "free" trade over "fair" trade at all cost—and the police who do their bidding (though the truth has since come out, damning police overkill against protesters). But it's also Neale's personal story with hands-on, in-your-face involve- ment, real people and political commentary. To put the protests into context, Neale intersperses his narrative with chapters focusing on: poverty and aid (he lived in India as a teenager); AIDS in Africa; "Star Wars" and global warming; Middle East oil, dictatorship and war; and the new corporate order that's strangling workers and farmers the world over. He also reflects on the fail- ures of communism and the weaknesses and strengths of today's anti-war movement, while encouraging more people to make a stand for a better, more equitable future. Challenging, yet with a hopeful vision. NEXUS +65 ‘Tea tha fiat he Ger frome www.nexusmagazine.com